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Food Chain Vocabulary
Food Chain
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5th Grade
09/05/2014

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Term
Secondary Consumer
Definition
Animals that eat other animals
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Scavengers
Definition
Animals that eat the carcasses of dead animals
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Producers
Definition
make their own food using photosynthesis
Term
Primary Consumers
Definition
Animals that eat producers
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Photosynthesis
Definition
A process where the sun's energy is captured and used
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Parasite
Definition
An organism that lives off of the bodies and the energy of other organisms.
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Omnivores
Definition
Animals that eat both plants and animals
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Herbivores
Definition
Animals that eat only plants
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Food Web
Definition
Two or more food chains that connect and overlap
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Food Chain
Definition
A chain of living things that are linked by what they eat
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Decomposers
Definition
These break down dead plants and animals and recycle nutrients back to the soil
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Consumers
Definition
Living things that must eat other living things for food and energy. These cannot produce their own food.
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Carnivores
Definition
Animals that eat only meat
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