Vocabulary Food Webs - Flow of Energy

The PATH of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

• Decomposer

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Energy Flowmaster

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A collection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem.

• Food Chain

• Food Flow

• Production Line

• Food Web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that makes its own food.

• Sun

• Producer

• Consumer

• Herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that must eat to get the energy it needs.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Niche

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A consumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms.

• Predator

• Prey

• Herbivore

• Decomposer

An organism that eats only meat.

• Carnivore

• Meatavore

• Herbivore

• Decomposer

An organism that eats only plants

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Saladavore

• Decomposer

An organism that eats both plants and animals

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism

• Herbivore

• Niche

• Predator

• Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that is hunted as food.

• Carnivore

• Prey

• Predator

• Decomposer