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Environment Unit
vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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producer | A living thing that makes its own food through photosynthesis. |
consumer | A living thing that gets its energy or food from other living things. |
herbivore | An animal that eats only plants. |
carnivore | An animal that eats only meat. |
omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals. |
predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food. |
prey | An animal that is hunted by another animal. |
decomposer | A consumer that breaks down other plants and animals and turns them into soil. |
food chain | The path that shows how energy is passed from one living things to another. |
food web | Food chains that overlap. |
biotic factor | any living part of an ecosystem |
abiotic factor | the nonliving part of an ecosystem |
photosynthesis | the process when plants use carbon dioxide, water and the sun to make their own food |
reduce | to use less of something |
recycle | to reuse something so that it can be turned into something that can be used again |
reuse | to use something again |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area |