Lesson 1 4 Vocabulary Earths Food Chains Webs

Lesson 1. 4 Vocabulary Earth’s Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids

Producers

Producers n An organism, such as a plant or type of algae, that uses energy from the sun to make its own food.

Consumers

Consumers n An organism that gets energy by feeding directly on producers or by eating animals that feed on producers.

Decomposers

Decomposers n An organism that breaks down dead organisms into simpler substances.

Food Chain

Food Chain n An arrangement that shows how energy flows from one organism to another.

Primary Consumer

Primary Consumer n An organism that eats producers and is the second link in the food chain after producers.

Secondary Consumer

Secondary Consumer n An organism that gets its energy by eating other primary consumers.

Tertiary Consumer

Tertiary Consumer n An animal that eats secondary consumers; usually the top predator in the food chain.

Food Web

Food Web n An arrangement that shows the food chains in an ecosystem and how they overlap; also shows the roles and relationships among all the species in an ecosystem.

Herbivore

Herbivore n A primary consumer, or an animal that eats producers.

Carnivore

Carnivore n A secondary or tertiary consumer; an animal that eats other animals.

Omnivore

Omnivore n An animal that eats both producers and consumers. (animals and plants)

Predator

Predator n A living that hunts and kills other living things for food.

Prey

Prey n The animals that predators hunt for food.

Scavenger

Scavenger n An animal that seeks out and feeds off of the remains of dead animals.

Intertidal Zone

Intertidal Zone n The shallowest part of the ocean, lying between the high-tide line and the low-tide line.

Energy Pyramid

Energy Pyramid n A model that shows how energy moves through a food chain.

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