Understand Roles of Organisms in Food Chains

Organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• predator

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Organism that eats other things for food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• prey

Passing of energy, in the form of food, from one organism to another

• food cycle

• food network

• food chain

• food system

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Overlapping food chains

• food cycle

• food network

• food system

• food web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Representation of the feeding relationships & flow of energy in a food chain

• food pyramid

• food network

• food system

• food assembly

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumer that eats only plants

• omnivore

• insectivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

Consumer that eats only other animals

• omnivore

• frugivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

Consumer that eats both plants and animals

• omnivore

• fungivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

Amount of energy in a food pyramid transferred from one level to the next

• 0%

• 10%

• 78%

• 100%

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

If a disease strikes the snakes the rabbits will

• increase

• decrease

• not be affected

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4