Food Chains Vocab Formative Assessment

A fight between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources (food, mates, etc.).

• Competition

• Prey

• Predation

• Consumer

An organism that can make its own food.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Autotroph

An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Biotic

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

• Autotroph

Living (or dead) things.

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

Non-living things.

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Autotrph

• Heterotroph

When one organism kills and eats another organism.

• Predation

• Competition

• Autotrph

• Decomposer

An animal that hunts other animals for food.

• Predator

• Prey

• Competition

• Biotic

The animal that gets killed and eaten for food.

• Prey

• Predator

• Autotrph

• Biotic

What is a food chain?

• The links from producer to primary consumer, secondary consumer, and so on in a STRAIGHT LINE.

• The links from producer to primary consumer, secondary consumer, and so on in a WEB.

• The links from consumers to primary and secondary producers in a STRAIGHT LINE.

• The links from consumers to primary and secondary producers in a WEB.