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- Carnivore
- An animal that eats other animals
- Consumers
- an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
- Decomposers
- an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead matirials and wastes
- Food chain
- the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
- Food web
- overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem
- Herbivore
- an animal that eats only plants or plant producers
- Nutrients
- a substance that an organism needs in order to survive and grow
- Omnivore
- an animal that eats both plants and animals
- Predators
- an animal that hunts, catches, and eats another animal
- Prey
- an animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal
- Producer
- an organism that makes its own food
- Ecosystem
- all living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment
- Perish
- die
- Thrive
- grow strong and healthy
- Succession
- Gradual growth of new organisms in an environment
- Primary Succession
- happens when a brand new ecosystem begins to grow
- Secondary succession
- happens when an ecosystem has been wiped out and begins to regenerate itself and starts a new
- Pollution
- anything in the environment that can harm living things or damage natural resorces
- Conservation
- the wise use and protection of natural resources