Griffin's Life Science 5
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debbiegriffin on February 13, 2008
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 preditors |
| 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 |
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