Science Life Science Chapter 3
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ryanscott1981 on September 18, 2008
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These are science words from the life science unit, over chapter 3.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact |
| habitat | a place where an animals or a plant lives |
| chlorophyll | the green substance found in plants that traps energy from the sun and gives plants their green color |
| carbon dioxide | a gas found in air; breathed out by animals and humans |
| photosynthesis | a process by which plants change light energy from the sun and use it to make sugar |
| producer | a living thing that uses sunlight to make sugar |
| consumer | a living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats plants |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats other consumers |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and other consumers |
| scavenger | an animal that eats dead animals |
| decomposer | a consumer that puts materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water |
| food chain | the flow of energy through a community |
| predator | an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food |
| prey | the animals that predators hunt |
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