Food Web

Front

What is a predator?

Back

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism.

Front

What is a consumer?

Back

An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals.

Front

What is a living organism?

Back

All objects that have biological processes that keep them alive, such as plants and animals.

Front

What is a carnivore?

Back

An organism that gets energy by eating only other animals.

Front

What is a decomposer?

Back

An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants or animals without need for internal digestion.

Front

What is a food web?

Back

A system of interrelated food chains in an ecosystem.

Front

What is an herbivore?

Back

An organism that gets energy by eating only plants.

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

Front

What is an ecosystem?

Back

A community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system.

Front

What is interdependency in an ecosystem?

Back

The reliance of organisms on each other for food, shelter, and other needs.