Vocabulary Earth’s Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids Lesson 1.4 Vocabulary Earth’s Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids

Producers

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

Consumers

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

Decomposers

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

Food Chain

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

Primary Consumer

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

Secondary Consumer

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

Tertiary Consumer

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

Food Web

Food Web 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 A primary consumer, or an animal that eats producers.

Carnivore

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

Omnivore

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

Predator

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

Prey

Prey The animals that predators hunt for food.

Scavenger

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

Intertidal Zone

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

Energy Pyramid

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

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