Web of Life Vocabulary

Front

What is a herbivore?

Back

An animal that eats only plants.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Front

What is an organism?

Back

Any living thing.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Front

What is a predator?

Back

An animal that hunts and eats other animals.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Front

What is a food web?

Back

Many different food chains found in one place.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Front

What is a consumer?

Back

A living thing that eats other living things.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Front

What is a producer?

Back

A living thing that makes its own food.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Front

What is a decomposer?

Back

A living thing that breaks down dead living things.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Front

What is an ecosystem?

Back

A community of living things and their environment.

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

Front

What is biodiversity?

Back

The variety of different types of life found in an ecosystem.