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Science-Unit 10
Food Webs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms for food |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste |
| Dependent | to rely on someone or something else |
| Ecosystem | the living and nonliving components (parts) of an area |
| Food Web | overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
| Habitat | the place where an organism lives |
| Model | a picture, idea, or object that represents an object, a system or process and is used to help with understanding. |
| Food Chain | a representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food (ex: plants.) |