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Ecosystems
5th Grade Science
Term | Definition |
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Carnivore | Organisms that only eat other consumers. |
Consumer | Organisms that eat other organisms for energy. |
Decomposer | Organisms that break down dead or decaying material. |
Ecosystem | A community of living and non-living things that work together in an environment. |
Food chain | A sequence of who eats whom in a biological community (ecosystem) to obtain nutrition. |
Food web | Shows the connection between species in an ecosystem. (What eats what) |
Herbivore | Organisms that eat only producers. |
Host | An organism (producer or consumer) from which a parasite obtains nutrition. |
Omnivore | An organism that eats producers and consumers. |
Organism | Any living thing. |
Parasite | A consumer that lives in or on another organism (Host) and benefits by taking nutrients (food) from the host. |
Predator | A consumer that hunts another consumer for food. |
Prey | A consumer that Is Hunted and Killed for food. |
Primary Consumer | An organism that feeds on plants; a herbivore. |
Producer | Organism that uses sunlight |
Scavenger | A specific subgroup of carnivores that eat dead consumers. |
Secondary Consumer | An organism that eats primary consumers for energy. |