Science Vocabulary Module 2

An animal that eats other animals

• herbivore

• consumer

• carnivore

• omnivore

Predators, scavengers, and decomposers are different kinds of consumers

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Organism

• Herbivore

Any living thing such as a plant, animal, or bacterium

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Organism

• Herbivore

An animal that only eats plants

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Organism

• Herbivore

An animal that eats both animals and plants

• Omnivore

• Organism

• Carnivore

• Consumer

A series of feeding relationships between producers (plants) and consumers (animals)

• Organism

• Ecosystem

• Food Web

• Food Chain

Something that represents another thing, but is smaller or simpler, so that we can understand it better; for example, a diagram, a physical model or a computer simulation

• Food Web

• Model

• System

• Consumer

A set of feeding relationships among organisms in a community

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Model

• Ecosystem

A group of related parts that work together

• Model

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• System

An environment with certain living and non-living things, and the way these things interact

• Ecosystem

• System

• Model

• Organism