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Food Web Vocabulary

Case 2

Producer
Organisms that create their own food.
Plants
Use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
to create glucose(sugar) and oxygen

Consumer
Organisms that cannot create their own
food.
They need to consume ( eat) plants and /
or animals

Decomposer
A type of consumer that gets its food by
breaking down animal wastes and
remains of dead plants and animals
Bacteria and Fungi
Release nutrients and mineral salts back
into the soil for plants

Predator
An animal that feeds on other living
animals

Prey
The animals predators eat

References
http://www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/science/index6.html
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/f
oodchain/producersconsumers.htm
http://maliszewski10.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/file/view/prod
ucer.jpg/181126253/324x244/producer.jpg
http://linoit.com/entry/image/4462803
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Lion_wait
ing_in_Namibia.jpg
http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/037/153/original/zebr
a.jpg?1361831210

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