Food chains key vocabulary

Herbivores

• Eats plants only

• eats meat only

• Goes hunting

Carnivores

• eats meat only

• makes its own food

• eaten by a predator

omnivores

• Humans are omnivores because they eat plants and meat

• Makes its own food

• only eats grass

Producers

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consumers

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Which animal is the primary consumer?

• mouse

• locust

• snake

Select the prey in the food chain

• bird, snake, mouse

• grass and bird

• locust, mouse, snake

Predators

• An animal that kills for food.

• An animal that eats plants and animals.

• An animal that eats the secondary consumer.

People are part of the food chain.

• true

• false

Which word best describe humans?

• omnivores

• producers

• prey