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vocab predator/prey
science vocab for bm
Term | Definition |
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herbivore | consumer that eats only plants |
carnivore | consumer that only eats other animals |
omnivore | consumer that eats both plants and animals |
scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on dead animanls |
food chain | a series of events in which one organism eats another and gets energy |
food web | many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
organism | a living thing |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area |
predator | a carnivore that adapts to its evironment so that it can hunt and kill other animals |
prey | an animal that a predator hunts |