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Food Chain Vocab
5th Grade Science
| Nutrients | Substance in food and soil that help organisms live and grow |
| Food Chain | shows the path of energy as it moves from one organism to another |
| Producer | organisms that make their own food energy (plants) |
| Photosynthesis | the process by which a plant makes its own food |
| Consumer | Organism that gets its energy from eating other plants and animals |
| Herbivore | consumer that eats other plants |
| Carnivore | consumer that eats other animals |
| Omnivore | consumer that eats both plants and animals |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets its energy from breaking down the remains of plants and animals |
| Respiration | the process of using food and oxygen to release energy |