Food Chains Food Webs

Energy required by organisms to survive and comes either from the sun (for plants) or other organisms (for animals)

Food Chain the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

Food Web the movement of energy through an ecosystem involving many organisms

The arrow shows the direction that the ENERGY flows.

It all starts with the…… Sun a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the plants in the solar system It all starts with the……

Producer an organism that makes its own food

Consumer an organism that gets energy by eating another organism

Decomposer an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead material and waste

Herbivores plant eaters (How can you tell the horse is an herbivore?)

Carnivores meat eaters (How can you tell these animals are carnivores

Omnivores eats both plants and animals

Predator the animal that hunts “the hunter”

Prey the animal that is being hunted “the hunted”