Module 1: Food Chains and Webs Vocabulary Review

organisms that must consume other organisms for nutrition

• producer

• decomposer

• consumer

• organism

organism that produces their own food using inorganic compounds and an energy source like the Sun

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

organisms that break down (dead,dying, or diseased) organic matter

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• organism

The biotic (living) organisms in an environment that includes the abiotic (non-living, never having been alive) components or parts

• ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an individual animal, plant, or single- celled organism

• consumer

• organism

• ecosystem

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

each level in an ecosystem made up of organisms that share the same function (role) in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary source of energy

• producer

• secondary consumer

• trophic level

• primary consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a series of organisms that consume (eat) one another, allowing the energy and nutrients to flow from one to the next

• ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a network of interconnected food chains

• ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

herbivores that eat producers

• primary consumer

• consumer

• decomposer

• secondary consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

carnivores or omnivores that consume (eat ) primary consumers and/or producers

• primary consumer

• consumer

• decomposer

• secondary consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3