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Web of Life
Vocabulary for Web of Life unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| carnivore | a consumer that eats animals (meat) |
| consumer | an organism that eats other organisms |
| decomposer | an organism that eats dead and decaying material in an ecosystem |
| ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area |
| extinct | no living members of the species exist on the planet |
| food chain | ONE path of the transfer of energy in an ecosystem |
| food web | ALL the paths of the transfer of energy in an ecosystem |
| habitat | the place where an organism lives |
| herbivore | a consumer that eat plants |
| omnivore | a consumer that eat plants and animals(meat) |
| organism | a living thing |
| predator | an organism that hunts and kills other organisms for food |
| producer | an organism that makes its own food |