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Food Chains
Food Chains - Life Science
Term | Definition |
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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 |