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Ecosystem
A place with living and nonliving things.
Carbon Dioxide
A gas made of carbon and oxygen atoms that plants need for photosynthesis.
Carnivore
Animals that eat meat. They usually have sharp teeth and powerful jaws.
Herbivores
An animal that eats only plants or plant products.
Nonliving
Something that will not grow, change, or require a food source (sun, water, rocks, air).
Food Chain
The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
Food Web
Several connected food chains in an ecosystem.
Producer
An organism that makes its own food.
Population
All the living things in an ecosystem.
Survive
The ability to remain alive.
Consumer
A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to survive. It cannot make its own food.
Prey
An animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal.
Consumer
A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to survive. It cannot make its own food.
Community
Groups of different populations that live in the same ecosystem.
Interact
To influence each other, to work together
Species
All the members of the same kind of organism on Earth.
Scavengers
An animal that eats other dead animals (it doesn’t kill them, it eats the dead bodies that it finds).
Carnivore
Carnivores are animals that eat meat. They usually have sharp teeth and powerful jaws.
Predator
An organism that hunts, catches and eats other animals.