Food chains vocabulary

all of the living things in an ecosystem

• consumer

• producer

• biomass

• food chain

an animal that eats animals

• Carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• producer

a living thing that can not make its own food and must therefore feed upon, or "consume" other living things

• Ecosystem

• producer

• Consumer

• organism

a community of living things and its non-living environment

• Biomass

• Consumer

• Ecosystem

• Organism

all of the living and non-living things that make up one's surroundings

• environment

• biomass

• consumer

• producer

a straight-line diagram that shows which living things are eaten by others

• food chain

• ecosystem

• producer

• biomass

a living thing that eats only plants

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• producer

a living thing that eats both plants and animals

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

• biomass

a living thing

• producer

• consumer

• organism

• food chain

a living thing that makes its own food (example: a plant)

• consumer

• organism

• producer

• food chain