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| Food Chain | A representation of how energy travels between organisms within a habitat |
| Food Web | A representation of all of the interconnected food chains within a habitat |
| Producer | A plant that is able to produce it's own food by photosynthesis |
| Consumer | An organism which consumes another organism |
| Herbivore | An animal which eats plants |
| Carnivore | An animal which eats other animals |
| Omnivore | An animal which eats both plants and animals |
| Decomposer | An organism which breaks down dead organic material |
| Predator | An animal which hunts and kills other animals |
| Prey | An animal which is hunted and killed by other animals |
| Scavenger | An animal which eats animals that have already died |
| Toxin | A chemical that is poisonous to organisms |
| Accumulation | The build up of a particular thing (toxins for example) |
| DDT | A toxic chemical used to kill insect pests |
| Eutropification | The pollution of waterways with excess fertiliser causing algal blooms |
| Global warming | The gradual increase in the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere due to the build up of Carbon Dioxide |
| Acid Rain | A form of pollutuion caused by the release of sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen into the air turning rain water very acidic |
