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Food Chains & Webs
Science Study sheet
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| food chain | the path of energy from the sun to a producer to an animal to another animal |
| producers | an organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy |
| consumers | an organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals |
| herbivores | animals that eat only plants |
| carnivores | animals that eat only other animals |
| decomposers | an organism that breaks down the remains of plants and animals, as well as animal wastes |
| predators | animals that hunt other animals for food |
| prey | animals that are hunted or killed by another animal for food |
| omnivores | animals that eat both plants and animals |
| food web | an interconnected set of food chains |
| compete | fight for |
| produce | to make |
| excrete | eliminate as waste |
| germinate | to begin sprouting from a seed; to grow |
| burrow | a hole or tunnel dug under the ground |
| toxins | poisons |
| logical | makes sense; reasonable way of thinking |
| benefit | an advantage; a good thing; a help |
| graze | eat grass in a field |
| endangered | threatened with extinction |