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Food Chain
Food Chain for 3rd Grade Science
| Vocabulary | Definition |
|---|---|
| Producer | Something that makes its own food and gets its energy from the sun |
| Consumer | Something that needs to get its food |
| Herbivore | An animal that only eats plants |
| Carnivore | An animal that eats only meat |
| Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
| Predator | The enemy of an animal -- the hunter |
| Prey | The food of an animal -- what is being hunted |
| Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of a dead organism |
| Decomposer | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms and returns the raw materials to the environment |
| Food Chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another one to obtain energy |