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Food Chains and Webs
Vocabulary
| definition | term |
|---|---|
| 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 |