Unit 21 Sun to Food Vocabulary

Consumer

• An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms

• A carnivore

• Living things in an ecosystem

• Pieces of information collected in an investigation

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Producer

• Nonliving elements of an environment

• An organism that makes its own food

• A gas made of carbon and oxygen atoms

• Photosynthesis

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Decomposer

• An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste

• The process by which organic substances into smaller compounds

• The sprouting of a seed from a plant

• Metric unit to measure mass

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Decompose

• Something that needs nutrients water air and space to grow and change

• A living thing

• The part of the plant that takes in water and anchors the plant

• The process by which organic substances are broken down into simpler forms of matter

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Primary consumer

• A thing or plan from which something comes up

• In organism that makes its own food

• In a food chain an organism that eats plants

• In a food chain and in Logan isn't that feeds off plant eaters

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Secondary consumer

• A job that a part does for an organism

• In a food chain an organism that eats plants

• In a food chain in organism that feeds off plant eaters or primary consumers

• A consumer that eats both animals and plants

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Food chain

• The transfer of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

• A mixture of soil in decayed material that provides nutrients to plants

• A consumer that eats other animals

• A variable that is constant and does not change in an experiment

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Food web

• In organism that feeds on dead organisms or their own waste

• Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the transfer of food energy in an ecosystem

• Naturally occurring inorganic solids found in rocks

• Anything that can change in an experiment

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Herbivore

• All the living in living things that interact with each other

• A consumer that eats only herbs or herbs parts

• The sprouting of a plant from a seed

• A consumer that eats only plants or plant parts

Carnivore

• A consumer

• A consumer that eats other animals

• An organism that feeds on dead organisms

• An organism that feeds on dead organisms or on their own waste

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