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Animal Vocabulary
Food Chain and Food Web
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Religious Studies
4th Grade
03/20/2007

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consumer
Definition
an animal that eats other plants or animals in order to get their energy and live.
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producer
Definition
a plant that makes its own food
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carnivore
Definition
a consumer that eats other consumers; meat eaters
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herbivore
Definition
a consumer that eats producers; plant eaters
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omnivore
Definition
a consumer that eats other consumers or producers; plant and meat eater
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Food Chain
Definition
the path energy and materials take in a community; who eats who
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Predator
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a consumer that hunts, kills and eats other animals
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Prey
Definition
an animal that predators hunt and eat
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Decomposer
Definition
a consumer that gets energy and materials from dead plants and animals and puts the materials stored in the dead plants and animals back into the siol, air and water
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Food Web
Definition
shows different pathways for the flow of energy in an ecosystem
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Life Cycle
Definition
the stages of growth and development that an animal goes through in its life
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Reproduce
Definition
making more animals of the smae kind
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Metamorphosis
Definition
changes in form at each stage of an animal's life
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Behavior
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something an organism does
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Stimulus
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something that makes an organism act a certain way
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Response
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what an organism does when it senses the stimulus
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Instinctive behavior
Definition
a behavior that an animal inherits from its parents
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Learned Behavior
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a behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught
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Hibernation
Definition
deep sleeplike state when an animal's body processes slow down
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Migration
Definition
seasonal movement of animals from one place to another
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camouflage
Definition
to blend in with your surrounding for protection
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adaptation
Definition
to be able to change to survive in an environment
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vertebrate
Definition
animal with a backbone
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invertebrate
Definition
animal without a backbone
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