Food Chains & Food Webs

An organism that can make its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

An organism that gets energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms, and returns raw materials to the soil and water.

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

A consumer that eats only animals.

• carnivore

• herbivore

A consumer that eats only plants.

• carnivore

• herbivore

lion

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

sunflower

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

Series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy

• food chain

• food web

• spider web

• figaro chain

In which food chain below do the arrows point in the correct direction, showing the flow of energy from producer to consumers?

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A model of the feeding relationships within an ecosystem; formed from interconnected food chains

• food chain

• food web

• spider web

• figaro chain