Ecosystems Week 2

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem

• food web
• producer
• decomposer
• herbivore

An animal that gets energy by eating only plants

• prey
• producer
• food chain
• herbivore

An animal that gets energy by eating both plants & animals

• omnivore
• Producer
• decomposer
• food chain

An organism that gets energy by eating dead organisms, non-living materials or waste

• ecosystem
• living element (Biotic)
• decomposer
• producer

An animal that gets energy by only eating other animals

• ecosystem
• living element (biotic)
• food web
• carnivore

One path of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

• consumer
• ecosystem
• food chain
• prey

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism

• herbivore
• food chain
• predator
• nonliving (abiotic)

Animal that is hunted and eaten for food by another animal

• prey
• ecosystem
• producer
• living element (Biotic)

The transfer of energy through a food chain or web, beginning with the sun

• omnivore

• flow of energy

• nocturnal

• decomposer

active at night

• food web

• herbivore

• prey

• nocturnal