Food Web Vocabulary

Producer

• Creates energy from sun

• Gets energy by eating organisms

• Gets energy by eating a producer

• Gets energy by eating already dead organisms

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Primary consumer

• Eats producer

• Eats primary consumer

• Eats secondary consumer

• Eats tertiary consumer

• Eats Quaternary consumer

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Secondary consumer

• Eats producer

• Eats primary consumer

• Eats secondary consumer

• Eats tertiary consumer

• Eats Quaternary consumer

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Quaternary consumer

• Eats producer

• Eats primary consumer

• Eats secondary consumer

• Eats tertiary consumer

• Eats Quaternary consumer

Herbivore

• Eats producers

• Eats consumers

• Eats producers and consumers

• Eats dead organisms and turns them into nutrients

Made up of many food chains to show how energy is passed from one organism to another,

• food chain

• predator

• carnivore

• food web

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An animal that is hunted by another for food.

• producer

• prey

• bear

• predator

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A living thing that eats other organisms because they can not make their own food.

• producer

• herbivor

• consumer

• prey

An organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms or their remains.

• Consumer

• producer

• decomposer

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A community of organisms where there are several overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem.

• Food chain

• Food Web

• Energy Pyramid

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