Food Web Vocabulary

carnivore

• an animal on a diet

• an animal that eats only meat

• an animal who likes dairy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.4.6

consumers

• living things that eat other living things

• living things that make their food

• living things

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

decomposer

• a musical composer

• a landfill to dump debris

• an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

ecosystem

• a community of living and nom-living things that work together

• a system for filtering water

• a type of underground filtration system

food chain

• a chain where the links are made of food

• shows how living things rely on each other for food and how energy is moved from one living thing to another

• a line you wait in to get food

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

food web

• a line of food chains like Burger King

• a web a spider uses to get food

• a group of connected food chains

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

herbivore

• an animal that eats only plants

• an animal that eats meat

• an animal that makes its own food

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.4.6

habitat

• an area or environment where a plant or animal normally lives

• an area an animal moves to

• a new location for animals when they grow up and move out

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

omnivore

• an animal that eats hamburgers

• an animal that eats only veggies

• an animal that eats plants and animals

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.4.6

predator

• an animal that hunts and eats other animals

• an animal that orders its food from Door Dash

• an animal that makes its own food

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.4.6