EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Key points. Predation is an interaction in which one organism, the predator, eats all or part of the body of another organism, the prey. Herbivory is a form of predation in which the prey organism is a plant. Predator and prey populations affect each other’s dynamics.

Detailed explanation-2: -A predator is an organism that eats another organism. The prey is the organism which the predator eats. Some examples of predator and prey are lion and zebra, bear and fish, and fox and rabbit.

Detailed explanation-3: -A heterotroph is an organism that consumes other organisms in a food chain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Organisms that attack, kill and feed on other organisms (prey) are called predators.

Detailed explanation-5: -Whether it is a roadrunner swallowing a lizard, a blue crab eating a fish, an American Egret catching a perch, a shark investigating a surface disturbance that could be a meal, or a man rounding up a cow for slaughter, the predator kills to provide food for itself or its family.