Energy Relationships, Food Chains, Food Webs, Trophic Levels

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

• Predation

• Food chain

An animal that hunts other animals for food

• Predator

• Prey

• Herbivore

• Producer

The organism that is killed by another organism for food.

• Prey

• Predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Organism's role, or job, in its habitat (what it eats, what eats it, when and how it reproduces)

• Niche

• Habitat

• Community

• Population

Special characteristics that help an organism survive

• Adaptations

• Trophic levels

• Ecological pyramid

• Community

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An organism that cannot make its own food.

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that makes its own food

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Dead organic matter

• Detritus

• Rocks and minerals

• Consumer

• Producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Algae is an example of a....

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

• Predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The top predator in an ecosystem

• Apex Predator

• Prey

• Producer

• Primary consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4