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What are food chains and webs
SRA Imagine It Reading Story
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Language - English
5th Grade
01/06/2010

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Term
Ecosystem
Definition

n. All the living and non living things in a certain area

 

Example of ecosystem - involves plants and animals and how thy interact with one another

Term
Predator
Definition

An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food

 

n. organism that preys on another organism

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Scavenger
Definition

n. animal that feeds on dead matter

 

A person who searches through and collects items from garbage

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Vocation
Definition
n. Any profession, occupation or job
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Vow
Definition
n. Solemn promise
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Acquit
Definition
v. to declare not guilty
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Keepsake
Definition
n. something kept in memory of the giver; souvenir
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Wither
Definition
v. To dry up, become wrikled, wilt, sag, to shrink or become smaller
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Petty
Definition
adj. unimportant, of little or small work
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Repent
Definition
v. to feel sorry for what you have done or failed to do
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Mortal
Definition

n. a being that must eventually die. 

 

 adj. fatal or causing death

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Carnivore
Definition
n. an animal that eats only the flesh of other animals
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example of Carnivore
Definition

Mink

Owl

Dinasour

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Herbivore
Definition
n. an animal that eats only plants
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Examples of Herbivore
Definition
chipmunk, deer, raccoon, squirrel, mouse, and porcupine
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 Primary Consumers
Definition
is the Herbivore consumer
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Decomposers
Definition
are called "Nature's Clean Up Crew"
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"Nature's Clean Up Crew"
Definition

are decomposers who help recycle important nutrients and help keep them moving through out food webs.  This process of recycle occurs by the decomposers eating the bodies of dead plants and animals that is left over or not eaten by herbivores, or carnivores.

If this process doesn't happen the important nutrients would not reach plants and plants could not grow which will lead to other living things going hungry or starving

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Sheep, cows, and deer chew their food twice because
Definition

They cannot digest the food easily. 

 

 Therefore, after the animals swallow the food the first time it stays in their stomach for a while.

 

Afterwards, the food comes back up in their mouth and then they chew it again (or rechew it)  and swallow it for a second time. 

 

This process of rechewing helps to break down the food for the amimals body to absorb its energy.

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Meat-eating plants differ from most other plants because
Definition
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Plants offer Animals and Humans
Definition
Food, Energy, Oxygen
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