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Life Science-Week 24
Food Chains
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| producer | organism that make its own food |
| consumer | organism that eats another organism to get energy |
| herbivore | an organism that eats only plants |
| carnivore | an organism that eats only meat |
| omnivore | an organism that eats both meat and plants |
| food chain | a transfer of energy from the sun to producers to consumers to decomposers |
| scavenger | a carnivorous animal that eats dead carcasses;wolves, vultures, hyenas |
| decomposer | organism that breaks down dead material so that it can be returned to the soil;worms, fungi, bacteria |