Food Chains & Webs

An organism that produces its own energy

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer
• Predator

A diagram that shows how energy is transferred from one organism to another

• Carrying Capacity
• Producer
• Food Chain
• Balance of Nature

The relationship between all the resources and organisms in an ecosystem

• Food Web
• Balance of Nature
• Limiting Factor
• Food Chain

A diagram that shows how food chains are connected

• Producer
• Limiting Factor
• Consumer
• Food Web

Resource that restricts a population's growth

• Limiting Factors
• Balance of Nature
• Food Chain
• Food Web

Organism that eats other organisms to get energy

• Producer
• Consumer
• Plant
• Food chain

A parrot eats fruit, seeds, and insects.  Which of the following terms best describes a parrot?

• Herbivore
• Carnivore
• Producer
• Omnivore

A field mouse eats grass and grass seeds.  Which of the following terms best describes a field mouse?

• Herbivore
• Producer
• Carnivore
• Decomposer

An alligator eats fish, turtles, ducks, and small mammals on the bank.  Which of the following terms best describes the alligator?

• Herbivore
• Carnivore
• Omnivore
• Producer

In the arctic, polar bears hunt seals.  which of the following terms best describes the polar bear?

• Producer
• Predator
• Prey
• Host