Energy Vocab
Multiple food chains overlapping in an ecosystem
food web
The main source of energy for all life.
The sun
A model that shows how energy flows
Food chain
only living things that make their own food
plants/producers
The process that plants use sunlight to make food (sugars).
photosynthesis
organisms that eat dead things
decomposers
What diagram shows us what eats what in an ecosystem?
Food chain
a meat eater
carnivore
Consumers that consume producers.
Arrows
Tell me the order of a food chain for a mouse, hawk, seeds, and snake
seeds, mouse, snake, hawk
what plants breathe out and we breathe in
oxygen
organisms that eat other animals/herbivores
consumers/carnivores
The organism that animal eats
Food chain starts with this source of energy
The sun
Animals that are eaten and hunted by predators.
Prey
Organisms that eat both consumers and producers
omnivores
What happens when an animal is added or removed from a food chain or food web?
It changes the energy flow of the food web or food chain.
A tiger is a good example of this kind of consumer _____.
Carnivore
Animals that eat and hunt other animals
predators