FEED ME! - How Organisms Get Their Energy

What is a herbivore?

• an organism that can make its own food
• a carnivore that eats flesh of dead animals
• a consumer that eats only plants
• a plant

What is a food WEB?

• an organism that gets energy by eating another organism
• organisms that break down dead organisms and waste material
• an organism that can make its own food
• many overlapping food chains

What is a producer?

• organism that CANNOT make its own food
• organism that gets energy by eating another organism (heterotroph)
• an organism that CAN make its own food (autotroph)

What is a consumer?

• a carnivore that eats flesh of dead animals
• an organism that CAN make its own food (autotroph)
• an organism that gets energy by eating another organism (heterotroph)

What is a carnivore?

• a consumer that eats ONLY animals
• a consumer that eats ONLY plants
• a consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals

What is an omnivore?

• a consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals
• a consumer that eats ONLY animals
• a consumer that eats ONLY plants 

What is a scavenger?

• a carnivore that eats plants and animals
• a carnivore that eats only plants
• a carnivore that eats only animals
• a carnivore that eats flesh of dead animals

What is a food chain?

• many overlapping food chains
• a series of one organism eating another to obtain energy, usually beginning with a producer

What is a decomposer?

• a series of one organism eating another to obtain energy usually beginning with a producer
• a consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals
• organisms that break down dead organisms and waste material and return the raw materials to the environment
• a consumer that eats ONLY plants

What is an energy pyramid?

• a diagram showing the energy amount that moves from one feeding level to another
• a diagram that shows the four food groups
• a diagram that maps out what a carnivore eats