Science Vocabulary - Chapter 7

Living things, such as animals, that cannot produce their own food and obtain and consume it from other living things.

• folivores

• frugivores

• consumers

• herbivores

Living things that feed on plants, such as zebras, elephants, deer, and cows.

• herbivores

• folivores

• carnivores

• omnivores

Substance that builds and maintains the tissues in the body. (source of energy)

• poultry farms

• consumers

• decomposers

• protein

Herbivorous animals, such as giraffes and koala bears, that feed on plant leaves.

• herbivores

• frugivores

• carnivores

• folivores

Herbivorous animals that feed mainly or exclusively on fruits; examples are the toucan, opossum, squirrel, certain flies, and some bats.

• frugivores

• omnivores

• carnivores

• folivores

Animals that feed on meat, i.e., eat other animals; examples are sharks, lions, and tigers.

• frugivores

• omnivores

• carnivores

• herbivores

Animals, such as pigs and chimpanzees, that eat both plants and other animals.

• omnivores

• carnivores

• folivores

• herbivores

Place where birds are raised for their meat or eggs.

• food web

• food chain

• detritus

• poultry farms

Living thing, for example a fungus or a bacterium, that feeds on the remains of other living things (leaves, skin, excrement) or dead plants and animals.

• carnivores

• decomposers

• detritus

• protein

Remains of a decomposing living thing or parts of it.

• omnivores

• food web

• decomposers

• detritus