Scott Foresman Science 4th grade
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- Carbon dioxide
- A gas found in air
- Carnivore
- A consumer that eats other consumers
- Chlorophyll
- The green substance found in plants that traps energy from the sun and gives plants their green color
- Consumer
- A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals
- Decomposer
- A consumer that puts materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water
- Ecosystem
- All the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact
- Food chain
- The flow of energy through a community
- Food web
- All the chains in a community
- Habitat
- A place where an animal or a plant lives
- Herbivore
- A consumer that eats plants
- Omnivore
- A consumer that eats both plants and other consumers
- Photosynthesis
- A process by which plants change light energy from the sun and use it to make sugar
- predator
- An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
- prey
- The animals that predators hunt
- Producer
- A living thing that uses sunlight to make sugar
- Scavenger
- An animal that eats dead animals