Food Chains/ Webs Vocabulary

The way in which living organisms depend on each other to remain alive, grow, and reproduce.

• Niche
• Interdependence 
• Adaptation 
• Limiting Factors

A path of energy that flows from one organism to the next (it flows from the sun to the producers to the primary consumers, then to the secondary consumers, to the tertiary consumers).

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Consumers
• Decomposers

A diagram of several connected food chains.

• Food Chain
• Primary Consumer
• Food Web
• Secondary Consumer

An organism that eats the producer- (animals that eats plants)

• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer
• Tertiary Consumer
• Consumer

An organism that eats the primary consumer.

• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Tertiary Consumer
• Producer

An organism that eats the secondary consumer.

• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Tertiary Consumer
• Consumer

The role that an organism plays in the habitat and lifestyle of a population.

• Interdependence
• Primary Consumer
• Adaptation
• Niche

An animal that consumes only plants.

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Decomposer
• Omnivore 

An animal that eats plants as well as other animals.

• Carnivore
• Omnivore 
• Herbivore
• Consumer

An animal that eats only other animals.

• Omnivore 
• Carnivore 
• Herbivore
• Producer