EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A carnivore is an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals. Sometimes carnivores are called predators. Organisms that carnivores hunt are called prey. Carnivores are a major part of the food web, a description of which organisms eat which other organisms in the wild.

Detailed explanation-2: -Carnivores are animals that eat only meat. Omnivores are animals that eat both plants and meat.

Detailed explanation-3: -Carnivores eat other consumers. This means they eat other animals. Animals that eat both producers and consumers are called omnivores. When animals die, decomposers can break them down so that plants can use the nutrients again and the cycle can start over.

Detailed explanation-4: -A carnivore is an animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals. Carnivores generally eat herbivores, but can eat omnivores, and occasionally other carnivores.

Detailed explanation-5: -Carnivores will feed on herbivores, omnivores, and other carnivores in an ecosystem. A natural community depends on the presence of carnivores to control the populations of other animals. Large carnivores include wolves and mountain lions. A large carnivore might hunt down large herbivores such as elk and deer.