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Food Chains and Webs
Food Chains and Webs Review
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5th Grade
04/11/2011

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Organism that feeds on and breaks down dead organisms.
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decomposer
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Group of living things that are all the same kind.
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species
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Shows how living things get food and energy.
Definition
food chain
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Animal that eats only other animals.
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carnivore
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Things in food that living things need.
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nutrients
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Place where an organism lives.
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habitat
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Animal that is killed and eaten by another animal.
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prey
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All the interacting living and nonliving things in an area.
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ecosystem
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Green plant that makes food.
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producer
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Every food chain begins with a
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producer.
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All the populations of animals that live in an area make up a
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community.
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Two decomposers are
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earthworms and fungi.
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Camouflage and mimicry are kinds of
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adaptations.
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The study of living and nonliving things and their interactions is
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ecology.
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A species is endangered when
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very few of its kind are left.
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A predator is an animal that
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hunts and eats other animals.
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An energy pyramid gets smaller from bottom to top because
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energy is used up at each level.
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Decomposers are important to food chains because
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they put nutrients back into the soil for plants.
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An animal that gets its energy only from producers is
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a primary consumer.
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