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Plants, Animals, and Food Chains
Intro to Food Chains
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Science
3rd Grade
02/03/2015

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Term
Energy
Definition
is the power living things need to keep themselves alive.
Term
Producers
Definition
are organisms, such as a plant, that makes its own food.
Term
Food chain
Definition
a series of organisms that depend on one another for food or energy.

(Example: A grasshopper gets energy from cattails. Next, energy moves from the grasshopper to a skunk. Then energy moves from the skunk to a hungry owl.)
Term
Consumer
Definition
an organism that eats other living things; plants or other animals.

Animals are this and so are YOU!
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Predator
Definition
an animal that HUNTS other animals for food.
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Prey
Definition
an animal that IS HUNTED by another animal for food.
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Herbivores
Definition
are consumers that eat plants.

(Example: elephant)
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Carnivores
Definition
an animal that eats other animals (meat eaters).

(Example: cougar)
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Omnivores
Definition
an animal that eats BOTH plants and animals

(Example: bear)
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Decomposers
Definition
feed on dead plant and animal material in an environment.

(Example: worms)
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