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| scavenger | An animal that feeds on dead animals or any sort of food that it comes upon |
| food chain | The path by which energy is passed from one living thing to another |
| food web | All the food chains that are connected in a community or ecosystem |
| decomposer | Any living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals |
| producers | Green plants that produce their own food |
| organism | Any living thing, such as a plant or animal |
| herbivore | An animal that eats only plants |
| omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
| prey | The animal that predators hunt and eat |
| consumer | An animal that eats, or takes in food, in order to get its energy |
| population | Groups of the same kind of organism that live in the same place |
| carnivore | An animal that eats only other animals |
| predator | An animal that hunts and kills another animal for food |
