Digestion and Food Chains
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 carnivore | an animal that only eats meat |
| herbivore | an animal that only eats plants |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and other animals |
| producer | a living thing that makes its own food |
| consumer | a living thing that eats other living things for food |
| predator | an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food |
| prey | an animal that is hunted and killed by another animal for food |
| decomposer | a living thing that breaks down waste, as well as dead plants and animals |
| food chain | a simple way of showing the feeding relationships between plants and animals |
| scavenger | an animal that feeds on garbage or dead animals (like a raccoon) |
| habitat | the natural environment where a plant or animal lives |
| digestion | the process of breaking down food so that it can be used by living things for energy |
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