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| adaptation | behaviors or body parts that are especially designed to help |
| camouflage | patterns of body color that allow an animal to hide from predators |
| carbon dioxide cycle | the cycle in which carbon dioxide and oxygen move among plants, |
| carnivore | second-level consumers that eat only meat |
| chlorophyll | the green substance found in plants that is used as food for the |
| consumer | organism that must eat to get the energy they need |
| decomposer | consumers that break down the tissues of dead organisms |
| dicot | seed with two seed leaves where food is stored for the embryo |
| diversity | differences or variety among living things |
| ecosystem | a community and its physical environment together (includes all |
| embryo | something undeveloped or at its beginning stages |
| food chain | the flow of energy through a community in an ecosystem |
| food web | the relationships between different food chains in a single |
| habitat | a place where every population lives in an ecosystem |
| herbivore | first-level consumers that eat only plants |
| instinct | a behavior that an organism inherits (is born with) |
| learned behavior | a behavior that an animal learns or acquires from its environment |
| metamorphosis | a change in the shape or characteristics of an organism’s body as it |
| monocot | seed with one seed leaf where food is stored for the embryo plant |
| niche | the role of a population in its habitat |
| nitrogen cycle | the cycle in which nitrogen gas is changed into a form of nitrogen |
| nucleus | the central part of the cell that controls the activity of the cell |
| nutrient | a substance that is needed for growth and survival |
| omnivore | third-level consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| organism | a living thing made up of a cell or many cells |
| photosynthesis | the process of turning light energy, minerals, and water into food |
| predator | animals that hunt other animals for food |
| prey | animals that are hunted by other animals |
| producer | organisms that use sunlight to make the food they need from |
| transpiration | the process in which plants give off water through their stomata |
