Food Chains and Food Webs Vocabulary

the order in which organisms or living things, depend on each other for food; shows how each living thing gets food; always starts with a producer; arrows will show the flow of energy from one organism to another

• food chain

• predator

• energy pyramid

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a collection of food chains interconnected, or put together, from the same ecosystem; arrows show the flow of energy from one organism to another; multiple consumers, producers, and decomposers

• scavenger

• ecosystem

• food web

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

shows the amount of energy available at each trophic level of an ecosystem; the higher up in the pyramid, the less energy available

• prey

• energy pyramid

• habitat

• abiotic factors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that makes its own food

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

an organism that must eat to get energy

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals to return nutrients to soil

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

a living thing that hunts other living things for

• producer

• carnivore

• predator

• habitat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

a living thing that is hunted for food

• prey

• producer

• biome

• energy pyramid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

a living thing that feeds on the remains of dead animals; will not eat other living things

• scavenger

• prey

• primary consumer

• producer

a community of interacting organisms and their environment. Living things interact with each other and also with non-living things like soil, water and air

• decomposer

• scavenger

• secondary consumer

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-2