Vocabulary related to ecosystems and food chains
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| instinct | a behavior that an animal is born with
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| decomposer | living things that get energy from breaking down dead plants and animals
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| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and animals
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| carnivore | an animal that eats only other animals
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| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants
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| consumer | living things that eat plants and animals to get their energy
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| producer | living things that make their own food
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| food chain | a food relationship between plants and animals in the environment
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| migration | a long journey animals make when seasons change
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| learned behavior | a behavior that is taught
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| adaptation | how an animal's body or behavior helps it survive
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| mimicry | when an animal looks like something else in its environment
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| behavioral adaptation | something an animal does that helps it survive
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| shelter | a place where an animal raises its young and protects itself from the weather and its enemies
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| hibernation | when an animal goes into deep winter sleep
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| physical adaptation | how animal looks that hepls it survive
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| camouflage | an animal's color that helps it blend into it environment
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| ecosystem | all of the living and nonliving things in an environment
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| habitat | the place where an animal lives
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| terrestrial | dry land environment
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| aquatic | wet land environment
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| population | a group of organisms that are the same kind and live in the same place
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| community | all of the populations of living things that live together in the same evironment
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| organism | a living thing
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| prey | an animal that is hunted by other animals
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| predator | an animal that hunts other animals
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