Food Chain Vocabulary

an animal that eats other animals (examples: cat, hawk, shark, wolf)

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

an animal that eats plants (examples: elephant, deer, panda)

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

an animal that eats plants and other animals (examples: raccoon, brown bear, seagull, human)

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

an animal that hunts and eats other animals

• prey

• predator

an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals

• prey

• predator

a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organism to another (example: grass > mouse > owl)

• consumer

• food web

• organism

• food chain

a system of many food chains that interact with each other

• food chain

• decomposer

• food web

• consumer

an organism that makes its own food; primary source of energy in a food chain (examples: oak tree, grass, tulip, bean plant)

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• organism

an organism that needs to eat other organisms for food

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• food chain

a living thing

• scavenger

• food web

• herbivore

• organism