Feeding relationships, food chains and food webs

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Producer (autotroph)

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An organism that can make its own food from the abiotic environment.

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Consumer (heterotroph)

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An organism that eats other organisms or their products instead of producing its own nutrients.

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Food Chains

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

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Food Webs

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Interconnecting or linked food chains

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Photosynthesis

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The process where carbon dioxide and water are converted into glucose (sugar) and oxygen using the energy from sunlight converted by chlorophyll.

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Chlorophyll

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The part of a plant that makes plants green, and converts sunlight into a form that allows plants to do photosynthesis.

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Glucose

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A simple sugar that is used by organisms to make energy

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Organism

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is the simplest form of life and it is made of a single cell or many cells.

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Species

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organisms that can breed with each other and produce offspring

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Population

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A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular area.