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Predators: Glossary
A
- abundant
- lots of something
- adaptations
- the changes of an organism that allows it to survive
- ambush
- a surprise attack
- apex predator
- the top creature of the food chain - usually does not have a predator
B
- bogs
- spongy ground made of dead plant material
C
- camouflage
- the ability to hide or blend into the environment
- canine
- pointy teeth used for tearing food
- carcasses
- dead body
- carnivore
- animal that eats meat
- clusters
- grouped together
- concentrate
- focus or to put energy towards something
D
- decomposes
- break down or rot
- digestive enzymes
- a protein which works to decompose food in an animal's digestive system
- dominate
- to have power over something
F
- food chain
- a system that carries nutrition through living organisms
- food web
- a more complex system but similar to a food chain
H
- herbivores
- animal that eats plants
I
- incisors
- front teeth used for biting
- invertebrate
- an animal with a backbone
L
- leverage
- grabbing power
M
- molars
- back teeth used for chewing
N
- nocturnal
- animal that hunts at night
- nutrients
- the healthy parts of food
O
- omnivores
- animals that eat plants and animals
- organism
- a living thing
P
- paralyze
- to keep from being able to move
- predator
- an animal that hunts for its food
- primary consumers
- in a food chain, animals that are herbivores
- producers
- plants produce energy from sunlight
Q
- quaternary consumers
- fourth layer of consumer in a food chain
S
- scavengers
- animals that eat food that is already dead
- secondary consumers
- second layer of consumer in a food chain, usually omnivores or carnivores
- stalk
- to follow prey
T
- talons
- sharp claws of a bird
- tentacles
- arms of an animal, usually invertebrate, such as an octopus
- tertiary consumers
- third layer of consumer in a food chain, usually carnivore
- transform
- to change
- transmitted
- to pass from one to another
V
- vertebrates
- animals with backbones
- vibrations
- a quick repeated motion that can often be felt or heard
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