Food Chain Vocabulary

1. An organism that gains energy by breaking down dead plants, animals, and waste -

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

2. An organism that gains energy by eating other organisms -

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

3. An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy -

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

4. All living and non-living things and their interactions -

• ecologist
• ecosystem
• community
• population

5. All the members of ONE species -

• ecologist
• ecosystem
• community
• population

6. All the populations in an area -

• ecologist
• ecosystem
• community
• population

7. All energy that moves through a food chain originally comes from -

• producers
• consumers
• the sun
• decomposers