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Frizzell Vocab # 16
Food Chains-
Term | Definition |
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producer | Plants that use sunlight to "make" their own food. |
consumer | Any animal that must eat other organisms to supply their needed energy to live |
herbivore | a consumer that ONLY eats plants for energy |
carnivore | a consumer that ONLY eats other animals for energy |
omnivore | a consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals for energy |
scavenger | a consumer that eats dead organisms (they don't hunt or kill) |
decomposer | a consumer that BREAKS DOWN dead material and returns the nutrients back to the soil |
thrive | to grow well; to prosper |
perish | to pass away completely; to become destroyed; to die |
food chain | the movement of energy from the Sun to producers then to consumers |
food web | a system of interacting food chains within an ecosystem |
carbon dioxide (CO2) | a gas produced by animals during respiration that plants use for photosynthesis |
oxygen (O2) | a gas produced by plants during photosynthesis that animals use for respiration |
transfer (flow) of energy | the movement of energy between the Sun and living organisms |
respiration | a process by which animals breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide; breathing in and out |
photosynthesis | the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide |