1. Food Web- the intertwining food chains within an biological community.

2. Organisms- Any living thing (plant, animal, virus, bacterium)

3. Micro-Organisms- Very small living thing.

4. Populations- All of the plants/ animals of a species in a place.

5. Producers
This is not a producer.
This is a producer.

6. A Producer….
Are such things as plants. They are called producers because they use the suns light energy to produce sugar via photosynthesis from carbon dioxide and water.

7. This a primary consumer.
Consumer’s
This a primary consumer.
This is not.

8. A Primary Consumer…..
We just like every other animal cannot make our own food so, for survival we must eat plants and/or other animals. Thus we are called consumers. There are three groups of consumers. Primary Consumers are animals that eat only plants. They are also known as Herbivores. Can you list some Herbivores?

9. This a secondary consumer. This a secondary consumer.

10. Secondary Consumer……
Animals that eat only other animals are called carnivores. Can you name some carnivores? Those carnivores that eat only herbivores are called secondary consumers. Can you name some secondary consumers?

11. Carnivores eat only other carnivores and are called tertiary consumers
Carnivores eat only other carnivores and are called tertiary consumers. Animals that eat both plants and animals are called omnivores.

12. This is not a decomposer.
Decomposer’s
This is not a decomposer.
This a decomposer.

13. Decomposers are……
Decomposers are organisms that feed on dead or decaying matter. Decomposers increase the rate of the decay process. As a result they release minerals back into the ecosystem. Can you name some decomposers?

14. Food Web- the intertwining food chains within an biological community.

15. Differences Food webs are a intertwining
Food pyramids are a hierarchy of who eats who.
Food chain is 1 linear model of a strand from a food web.