6th Science - Chapter 2

An organism that can make its own food

• Producer

• Consumer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Herbivore

• Decomposer

Consumers that eat only plants

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Producers

• Herbivores

Consumers that eat only animals

• Herbivore

• Carnovire

• Scavenger

• Omnivore

Consumers that eat plants and animals

• Producers

• Scavengers

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

Carnivores that feed on the bodies of dead organisms.

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Scavengers

• Omnivores

Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to the environment

• Decomposers

• Consumers

• Producers

• Omnivores

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Water Cycle

A way to show the flow of energy through an ecosystem using many overlapping food chains

• Ecology

• Food Pyramid

• Food Web

• Energy Pyramid

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

• Energy Pyramid

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Consumer