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Food Chains and Webs
Vocabulary
definition | term |
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The path of energy from one living thing to another in an ecosystem | food chain |
All of the living and nonliving things found in one place | ecosystem |
The path energy flows in an ecosystem. It is made of many food chains. | food web |
Animals that get food by eating plants or other animals | consumers |
An animal that only eats other animals for energy. | carnivore |
An animal that hunts and eats other animals for food | predator |
A living thing | organism |
Organisms that make their own food | producers |
Animals that only eat plants | herbivore |
A living thing that gets energy from breaking down once living things (dead things) | decomposer |
An animal hunted by a predator | prey |
Give 2 examples of nonliving things | air, water, soil, sunshine, etc |
Give 2 examples of living things | animals, plants, people, |
What do the arrows in a food chain and food web represent | the flow of energy |
What is the source of energy on Earth | the sun |
All populations living together | community |
The place or home of a living thing | habitat |
2 or more of the same kind of living thing together | population |
a single organism | individual |
the job of an organism | niche |
what is the job of a decomposer | to clean up dead organisms that were once living |
Why are plants called producers | Because they "produce" their own food |