Food Chains and Food Webs

An animal that eats only other animals

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that eats only plants

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• predator

The process plants use to make food

• consumer

• producer

• food web

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Two or more food chains that overlap

• food web

• scavenger

• food chain

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that eats other living things to get

energy

• prey

• producer

• predator

• consumer

An animal that hunts other animals for food

• predator

• herbivore

• carnivore

• prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

To break down into simpler materials

• decay

• producer

• omnivore

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that breaks down the remains of

dead organisms

• prey

• predator

• decomposer

• consumer

An animal that is hunted for food by a predator

• predator

• prey

• decomposer

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The path of food energy in an ecosystem as one living thing eats another

• scavenger

• food web

• food chain

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3