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Unit B Chapter 2
Science Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |