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MES Food Chains
FCAT words about food chains and webs
Question | Answer |
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Producer | An organism that makes its own food from the environment, usually a green plant. |
Consumer | An organism that feeds on other organisms(plants or animals) for food. This organism cannot make their own food. |
Food Chain | Transfer of energy through various stages as a result of feeding patterns of a series of organisms |
Decomposer | A living thing that eats wastes and dead plants and animals. They break down wastes into nutrients. |
Carnivore | An animal that eats only other animals |
Herbivore | An animal that consumes only plants |
Omnivore | An animal that eats plants as well as other animals |
Habitat | A place where plants and animals can meet their needs such as food, water and shelter. |
Prey | Animals that are eaten. |
Predator | A consumer that eats prey (another animal) |
Sequence | The order in which things happen |
Food web | A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things |
Energy | The quantity that describes the capacity to do work |