How Do Other Living Things get Energy?

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All living things need energy to survive. Plants get the energy they need from trapping light.
Animals are different from plants because animals cannot use light energy to make sugar. Animals depend on plants for food.
When an animal eats a part of a plant, it is receiving sugar, minerals, and energy, it needs all this to grow.

Vocabulary words:
consumer: a living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals. Consumers are grouped according to the type of food they eat.

1.herbivore: a consumer that eats plants.
2.carnivore: a consumer that eats other consumers
3.omnivore: a consumer that eats both plants and other consumers.

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