Food Web Vocabulary

Define a Food Chain

• The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

• An animal that hunts other animals

• The path of food energy from one organism to another.

• An interconnected set of food chains.

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What is an example of a decomposer?

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What is a predator?

• An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

• An organism that only eats producers.

• A living thing such as a plant or an animal.

• An animal that hunts other animals.

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Define Ecosystem

• An interconnected set of food chains.

• All the living and nonliving things in an area and the interactions among them.

• Animals that eat primary consumers, these animals are carnivores and/ or omnivores.

What is a prey?

• An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

• An animal that hunts other animals.

• An organism that only eats producers.

Define Habitat

• A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area

• A living thing such as a plant or animal

• The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

What is a food web?

• The ability to do work

• A living thing such a plant or an animal

• An organism that only eats producers

• An interconnected set of food chains

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Define population

• Animals that eat primary consumers

• All of the living and nonliving things in an area and the interactions among them

• A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area.

• The natural home or environment of an animal,plant or other organism.

Define Energy

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Define organism

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