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| ecosystem | all of the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact |
| habitat | a place where an animal or a plant lives |
| carbon dioxide | a gas found in air |
| producer | a living thing that uses sunlight to make sugar |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats plants |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and other consumers |
| decomposer | a consumer that puts materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water |
| prey | the animals that predators hunt |
| food chain | the flow of energy through a community |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats other consumers (meat-eaters) |
| chlorophyll | the green substance found in plants that traps energy from the sun and gives plants their green colors |
| photosynthesis | a proces by which plants change light energy from the sun and use it to make sugar |
| consumer | a living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals |
| scavenger | an animal that eats dead animals |
| predator | an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food |
| food web | all the food chains in a community |
