Fifth-Grade Science Vocabulary

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What is an herbivore?

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An animal that eats only plants.

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What is an omnivore?

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An animal that eats both plants and animals.

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What is a carnivore?

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An animal that eats only other animals.

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What is commensalism?

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A relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

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What is mutualism?

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A relationship between two organisms where both benefit.

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What is parasitism?

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A relationship between two organisms where one benefits at the expense of the other.

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What is a producer?

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An organism that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis, and serves as a source of food for other organisms in a food chain.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that eats other organisms for energy.

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What is a decomposer?

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An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms, recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.

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What is a predator?

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An animal that hunts and eats other animals.