Web of Life Vocab

An animal that hunts and eats other animals.

• predator

• prey

• consumer

• producer

An animal that is hunted by and eaten by another animal.

• predator

• omnivore

• prey

• consumer

An animal that only eats plants.

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• consumer

An animal that only eats other animals.

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• model

• omnivore

A living thing that eats other living things.

• prey

• consumer

• predator

• producer

A living thing that makes its own food.

• producer

• predator

• consumer

• prey

How living things are connected through what they eat and what they are eaten by.

• predator

• food web

• food chain

• model

A pretend version of something scientists use when the real thing is too big, small, or complicated to work with.

• consumer

• model

• food chain

• omnivore

Many different food chains found in one place.

• food web

• model

• food chain

• consumer