Food Chains and Food Webs Vocabulary

a living organism, such as a plant, that makes its own food, using the energy of the Sun, water and carbon dioxide

• predator
• producer
• decomposer
• food web

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a living organism that gets energy by eating other organisms

• herbivore
• consumer
• producer
• food web

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an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals

• omnivore
• prey
• herbivore
• predator

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an animal that eats other animals

• omnivore
• herbivore
• scavenger
• carnivore

the path that food energy travels from one organism to another organism in an ecosystem

• energy pyramid
• food web
• food chain
• decomposer

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an animal that eats both plants and animals

• herbivore
• omnivore
• carnivore
• predator

organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead and decaying matter and waster

• scavenger
• food chain
• herbivore
• decomposer

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a diagram that shows how much food energy is passed from each level of the food chain to the next

• energy pyramid
• food chain
• decomposer
• herbivore

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overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem

• producer
• decompser
• food web
• food chain

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an animal that eats dead organisms

• omnivore
• carnivore
• scavenger
• predator