1. 5.9B Vocabulary

2. Food Chain
The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

3. Food Web
A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem

4. Producer
An organism that makes its own food; plants

5. Consumer
An organism that must eat to get the energy it needs

6. Decomposer
A consumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms

7. Carnivore
An organism that eats only meat

8. Herbivore
An organism that eats ONLY plants

9. Omnivore
An organism that eats both plants and animals

10. Predator
An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism

11. Prey
An animal that is hunted as food

12. Energy What is needed to do or cause change, work.
Food chains show the flow of energy from one organism to another.