Food Chains and Web Vocabulary

all of the living things in an ecosystem

• Omnivore

• Organism

• Biomass

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

a living thing that makes its own food (such as a plant)

• consumer

• organism

• herbivore

• producer

all of the living and non-living things that make up one's surroundings.

• food chain

• environment

• organism

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a living thing

• omnivore

• organism

• ecosystem

• carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

a living thing that eats both plants and animals

• herbivore

• carnivore

• organism

• omnivore

a diagram that overlaps many different food chains to show all of the feeding patterns of living things in an ecosystem

• food chain

• ecosystem

• food web

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an animal that eats other animals

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• organism

a living thing that cannot make its own food and must feed upon other animals

• producer

• consumer

• organism

• environment

a community of living things and its non-living environment

• ecosystem

• organism

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a living thing that eats only plants

• consumer

• producer

• organism

• herbivore