Food Chains and Web Vocab

Producer

• Something that eats dead organisms and puts nutrients into the soil

• Plants that make their own food through photosynthesis

• Animals that eat other living things for energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Decomposer

• Something that eats dead organisms and puts nutrients into the soil

• Plants that make their own food through photosynthesis

• Animals that eat other living things for energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumer

• Animals that eat other living things for energy

• Animal that eats only plants

• Animals that eat only meat

Herbivore

• Animal that easts only meat

• Animal that eats plants and meat

• Animal that eats only plants

Carnivore

• Animal that easts only meat

• Animal that eats plants and meat

• Animal that eats only plants

Omnivore

• Animal that easts only meat

• Animal that eats plants and meat

• Animal that eats only plants

Scavenger

• Animal that eats plants and meat

• Eats dead stuff or anything they can find but not put in soil

• Animal that eats only meat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3