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Unit B Chapter 2
Science Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Interact | When plants and animals work together with the environment to get what they need. |
Producer | A living thing that makes its own food. |
Consumer | A living thing that eats other living things as food. |
Herbivores | A consumer that only eats plants. |
Carnivore | Animals that only eat meat. |
Omnivore | Animals that eat both plants and animals. |
Decomposers | A living thing that breaks down dead things for food. |
Food chain | Shows the path of energy from one living thing to another. |
Energy pyramid | Shows that the amount of usable energy in an ecosystem is less for each higher animal in the food chain. |
Food web | A model that shows how food chains overlap. |
Predator | An animal that hunts another animal for food. |
Prey | An animal that is being hunted. |