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Energy & Ecosystem
Energy in the Ecosystem Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| food web | all the food chains in a community |
| herbivore | animals that eat plants |
| chlorophyll | the green things in a plant that trap energy from the sun and changes its color |
| carnivore | animals that eat other animals |
| ecosystem | all living things in a habitat |
| photosynthesis | the process by which plants change light to energy from the sun and uses it to make sugar |
| habitat | a place where plants and animals live |
| omnivore | consumer that eats both plants and animals |
| scavenger | eats dead things (like your brothers) |
| carbon dioxide | gas found in the air (emitted by plants) |
| predators | an animal that kills for food |
| food chain | the flow of energy through a community |
| prey | the animal that a predator hurts |
| decomposer | consumers put dead plants or animals in the soil or water |
| consumer | something that gets energy plants or other animals |