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| adaptation | any body covering, body part, or behavior that helps an animal live in its environment |
| habitat | an animal's surroundings |
| hibernation | when animals spend the winter in a deep sleep |
| migration | when animals move to find warmer weather and food |
| camouflage | an adaptation that allows animals to blend into their surroundings |
| mimicry | ability of one animal to imitate another animal or its surroundings |
| instinct | behavior that is natural rather than learned |
| producer | an organism that makes food |
| consumer | an organism that eats food |
| predator | an animal that hunts and eats other animals |
| prey | an animal that is food for another animal |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants |
| carnivore | animals that eat only meat |
| omnivore | animals that eat both plants and animals |
| decomposer | any living organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients that can be used by other living things |
| food chain | an ordered arrangement of animals and plants which each feeds on the one below the chain |
| food web | a combination of several food chains that are connected |
| population | organisms of the same kind that live in the same place |
| community | all organisms that live in a place |
