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13 Cards in this Set
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Carnivore
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Meat Eater
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Community
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A group of people that live and work together.
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Consumer
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somebody or something that consumes something by eating it, drinking it, or using it up
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decomposer
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to break down organic matter from a complex to a simpler form, mainly through the action of fungi and bacteria, or be broken down in this way
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Environment
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all the external factors influencing the life and activities of people, plants, and animals
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Extinction
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the gradual process by which a group of related organisms dies out
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Food Chain
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a hierarchy of different living things, each of which feeds on the one below
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Food Web
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the interlocking food chains within an ecological community
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Herbivore
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an animal that feeds only or mainly on grass and other plants.
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Omnivore
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an animal that will feed on any type or many different types of food, including both plants and animals.
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Predator
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a carnivorous animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals in order to survive, or any other organism that behaves in a similar manner
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Prey
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an animal or animals caught, killed, and eaten by another animal as food
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producer
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ecology an organism that manufactures its own food from simple inorganic substances, e.g. a green plant
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