Term | Definition |
Food Chain | organisms/plants that use the sun's energy to make their own food. |
Predators | Animals that kill and eat other animals for food |
Prey | Animals that other animals hunt for food |
Food Chain | A series of organism through which energy is passed |
Food Web | A system of interlocking food chains |
Decomposers | Organisms that break down the dead bodies of other organisms. They are the last step of the food chain and are too small to see without a microscope |
Adapt | Go through changes that make them fit in better with the environment around them. |
Photosynthesis | Process when plants use water, carbon dioxide and energy from the sun to make sugar |
Consumers | A living thing that eats another living thing |
Herbivores | A living creature that eats only plants |
Omnivores | A living creature that eats a wide variety of plants and animals |
Symbiosis | A partnership between living things |
Carnivores | A living creature that is only or mostly a meat eater |
Mutualism | A kind of symbiosis in which both partners benefit |
Parasites | An organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and benefits by taking nutrients from them |
Parasitism | A kind of symbiosis in which one partner benefits and then other is harmed |
Scavenger | An animal that consumes dead animals, but does not kill the animal itself |
Host | The partner that is used as a source of food by the parasite |
Commensalism | One partner benefits, the other is not helped or harmed |