8. Decomposers
• Decomposers are the last stop on the food chain, they eat the things no one
else wants to.
• Decomposers many times eat dead things from the ground in order to get
nutrients.
• The dead things that are eaten by decomposers are called detritus which
means "garbage".
• Some of the most common decomposers are bacteria, worms, slugs, snails,
and fungi like mushrooms.
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10. Consumers can be divided into
Predator
• Consumers that eat the prey.
• Examples: Snake - Lioness – Falcon.
Prey
• Consumers that are eaten.
• Examples: Bird - Zebra – Fish
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11. Predation:
• The term prey refers to an animal that is sought, captured, and eaten by
a predator.
• A predator is an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food in an act
called predation.
• Predation the preying of an animal on another.
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25. Omnivores examples:
• species of pigs, badgers, bears, hedgehogs, skunks, sloths, squirrels, raccoons,
chipmunks, mice, rats, humans and chimpanzees, are also omnivores.
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