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Life Science: 5
Life Science Lesson 5: Unique Niche, Food Chains, & Food Webs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Unique Niche | An organism’s role in an ecosystem based on how it gets its food |
| Consumers | Animals that eat other organisms |
| Herbivores | Animals that eat only plants |
| Carnivores | Animals that eat only other animals |
| Omnivores | Animals that eat both plants and animals |
| Predators | Animals that hunt other animals for food |
| Prey | Animals that are hunted by predators |
| Decomposers | Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals, as well as animal wastes |
| Food Chain | The path of energy from the sun to a plant to an animal to another animal |
| Food Web | A group of overlapping food chains |