Food Chains/Webs

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• Food chains

• Food webs

• Flow of energy

• Primary consumer

A complex diagram representing the many energy pathways in an ecosystem

• Food chains

• Terrestrial ecosystem

• Food webs

• Primary Consumer

An organism that can make its own food

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

consumer that feeds directly on producers

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Primary Consumer

• Producer

Any living thing

• Organism

• Producer

• Consumer

• Omnivore

A consumer that eats only plants

• Omnivore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Producer

A consumer that eats only animals

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Producer

• Carnivore

A consumer that eats both plants and animals

• Producer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

the movement of energy through an ecosystem

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Organism

• Flow of energy

a land-based ecosystem

• Marine Ecosystem

• Terrestrial Ecosystem

• Freshwater Ecosystem

• Hydrothermal vents