Food Chain and Food Web Vocabulary

Bacteria and fungi that break down dead plant and animals.

• Consumer

• producer

• decomposer

A living thing

• autotroph

• heterotroph

• organism

An organism that can make its own food through the process of photosynthesis.

• Consumer

• producer

• decomposer

A process plants use to turn sunlight into food.

• Photosynthesis

• autotroph

• heterotroph

An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food

• carnivore

• predator

• prey

The source of enrgy for almost all living systems on Earth.

• Sun

• autotroph

• arrows

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

• Consumer

• producer

• decomposer

An animal that eats other animals.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

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

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

• food chain

• food web

• energy pyramid