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8th Grade Science
Category 4 Organisms and Environments Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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producer | an organism that can make its own food through photosynthesis |
consumer | an organism that gains energy by feeding on other organisms |
decomposer | an organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms |
scavenger | an animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
herbivore | a consumer that feeds on plants only |
carnivore | a consumer that feeds on animals only |
omnivore | a consumer that feeds on plants and animals |
predator | an organism that hunts other organisms for food |
prey | an organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism |
parasite | an organism that lives in or on another organism and causes harm to it |
host | an organism that a parasite lives in or on |