Energy Transfer in Living Things Klein ISD M.S. Javier E. Cruz
How do plants and animals get the energy they need? Vocabulary List Consumer Producer Food Chain Carnivore Food Herbivore Decomposer Food Web M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Vocabulary Boards Concept Definition Picture Example or Sentence M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Consumer Definition: An organism that consumes another organism as food as a mean of energy. Picture: Sentence: Animals are consumers. They eat plant and other animals to get energy. M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Producer Definition: Picture: Sentence: Any autotrophic Organism capable of creating organic materials from inorganic materials which therefore makes them an essential part in any ecosystem by being the means in which energy is introduced into the food chain of it. Picture: Sentence: Green plants make, or produce, their own food. Plants are producers. M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Food Chain Definition: Picture: Sentence: A diagrammatic version of the flow of energy from one organism to another in a community. Arrows show the direction of the energy Flow. The series of step by which energy is obtained, used and transformed by living things. Picture: Sentence: Food chains, also called food webs, food networks and/or tropic networks, describe the feeding relationships between species to another within an ecosystem. M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Carnivore Definition: An organism that eats animals. Terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb. . Picture: Sentence: In a more general sense, animals are loosely considered carnivores if their feeding behavior consists of preying on other animals rather than grazing on plants. M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Food Definition: Food is what is required by humans to grow and survive, and provide a 'fuel' for the energy needed in our biological reactions. Picture: Sentence: Food is any substance, usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, water and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk by an animal for nutrition or pleasure. M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Herbivore Definition: An animal that consumes herbaceous vegetation. Picture: Sentence: Herbivore is a form of predation in which an organism, known as a herbivore. M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Decomposer Definition: An organism that eats dead or decaying organisms. Picture: Sentence: Decomposers are organisms that consume dead organisms . M.S. Javier E. Cruz
Food Web Definition: Interconnecting food chains in an ecological community. Picture: Sentence: A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. M.S. Javier E. Cruz