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Food Chain & Food We
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Consumer | an animal that eats plants or other animals as food |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by feeding on the bodies of dead plants and animals |
| Herbivore | an animal that eats plants |
| Carnivore | an animal that eats other animals |
| Omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and other animals |
| Adaptation | any characteristic that helps an animal stay alive in its environment |
| Food Chain | the movement of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
| Food Web | all of the food chains in an ecosystem |
| Energy Pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain |
| Competition | the struggle of organisms against each other to get the same resource |
| Predator | an animal that hunts, catches, and eats other animals |
| Scavenger | an animal that feeds on dead or decaying matter |
| Prey | an animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal |