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

2. Producers

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

4. Consumers

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

6. Decomposers

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

8. Food Chain

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

10. Primary Consumer

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

12. Secondary Consumer

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

14. Tertiary Consumer

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

16. Food Web

17. 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.

18. Herbivore

19. Herbivore
A primary consumer, or an animal that eats producers.

20. Carnivore

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

22. Omnivore

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

24. Predator

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

26. Prey

27. Prey
The animals that predators hunt for food.

28. Scavenger

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

30. Intertidal Zone

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

32. Energy Pyramid

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

34. By: Paige Rogers, Annamarie Rodriguez, and Carlie McMahon
The End
By: Paige Rogers, Annamarie Rodriguez, and Carlie McMahon