Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs Unit Vocabulary

What is a Consumer?

• An animal who eats other animals for food. Lions, tigers, and wolves are examples of carnivores in the wild.

• An organism, usually a green plant, that produces its own food through photosynthesis. 

  
  

• An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals

• An animal that eats plants and animals for food. Humans, bears, and raccoons are examples of omnivores.

  
  

What is a Producer?

• An animal who eats other animals for food. Lions, tigers, and wolves are examples of carnivores in the wild.

• An organism, usually a green plant, gets its own food through photosynthesis. 

  
  

• An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals

• An animal that eats plants and animals for food. Humans, bears, and raccoons are examples of omnivores.

  
  

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What is an Omnivore?

• An organism that gets energy by eating only plants.

• An animal who eats other animals for food.

  
  

• An animal that eats plants and animals for food.

• All living and nonliving things and all their

  interactions in an area.

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What is an Carnivore?

• An organism that gets energy by eating only plants.

• An animal who eats other animals for food.

  
  

• An animal that eats plants and animals for food.

• All living and nonliving things and all their

  interactions in an area.

What is an Herbivore?

• An organism that gets energy by eating only plants.

• An animal who eats other animals for food.

  
  

• An animal that eats plants and animals for food.

• All living and nonliving things and all their

  interactions in an area.

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What is an Ecosystem?

• An organism that gets energy by eating only plants.

• An animal who eats other animals for food.

  
  

• An animal that eats plants and animals for food.

• All living and nonliving things and all their

  interactions in an area.

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What is an Food Web?

• An organism that gets energy by eating only plants.

• An interconnected set of food chains.

  
  

• An animal that eats plants and animals for food.

• All living and nonliving things and all their

  interactions in an area.

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What is Photosynthesis?

• A type of ecosystem All living and nonliving things and all their

  interactions in an area.

  
  

• The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and release oxygen.

• An organism that gets energy by eating only plants. Giraffes, Hippopotamus, squirrels, and koalas are examples of herbivores.

• An organism, usually a green plant, that produces its own food

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Which of the following is a Producer?

• Human

• Green Plant

• Lion

• Wolf

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Which of the following is not a consumers?

• Human

• Green Plant

• Lion

• Wolf

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