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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 |