Food Chains

A carnivore is an animal that eats only meat.

An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals.

A herbivore is an animal that eats only plants.

A food chain is a sequence that shows how energy and nutrients are passed from one organism to another.

A predator is an animal that hunts and eats other animals.

Prey is an animal that is hunted and eaten by predators.

Producers, like plants, create their own food through photosynthesis and provide energy for other organisms.

An ecosystem is a community of living organisms and their environment, interacting as a system.

Energy and nutrients flow from producers to consumers and then to decomposers in an ecosystem.

A decomposer is an organism that breaks down dead material and recycles nutrients back into the ecosystem.