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This issue of Puddler explores the eating habits of various types of animals, including humans, and takes a look at how predators, prey and plants form links in food chains and food webs.
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Summary: Animals can be grouped according to their eating habits. Herbivores are animals that eat plants. Carnivores are animals that eat other animals. Omnivores are animals that eat both plant and animal foods. Each group of animals has a lifestyle and physical features (such as beaks, teeth, senses and so on) that are adapted for helping them gather food.
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Summary: A food chain represents the relationships between plants, predators and prey in an ecosystem. Plants form the first link in every food chain; they are the only living things that can manufacture their own food (through photosynthesis). Herbivores make up the next link in a food chain, followed by carnivores and/or omnivores. With each type of food an animal eats, it becomes a link in a different food chain. Food chains connect to form what scientists call a food web.
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Summary: Like all living things, people need food for survival; we are omnivores, eating a diet of plant and animal foods. Unlike other living things, however, people have many choices about what to eat and how to serve it up. We can control our food supply and change foods from their original form. We can take raw foodsfruits, vegetables, grains, meat and fishand process them by cooking, freezing and combining them with other ingredients. Sometimes, it's hard to tell which raw foods go into processed foods. A healthy diet features fresh, raw foods from all the food groups.
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