Food Chain and Food Web Vocabulary

An animal that hunts other animals for food.

• Prey

• Producer

• Predator

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Most animals are part of several food chains, together these food chains make up this

• Food chain

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumers that eat only plants or producers

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Consumer

Living things that make their own food through a process called photosynthesis

• Consumer

• Producer

• Predator

• Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Main source of all energy

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that eats plants or other animals for energy because they cannot make their own food

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Consumer

• Omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The path of the energy in food from one organism to another, arrows show flow of energy

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Food Chain

• Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumers that eat both plants and animals

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Producer

• Omnivore

A living thing that is hunted for food

• Predator

• Producer

• Prey

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Living things that get energy by breaking down dead plants and animals to provide nutrients for the soil

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3