Food Web Vocabulary

An organism that eats only meat.

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

• foodivore

An organism that eats only plants.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

• parasite

An organism that eats both meat and plants

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

• niche

An organism that uses an outside energy source, such as the sun, to make its own food.

• producer

• consumer

• ominivore

• carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating plants.

• Parasite

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Ominvore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that produce their own food mostly through photosynthesis (producers). Examples are plants and algae.

• Ominvore

• Detritivore

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that get their energy and nutrition from other organisms (consumers).

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Detritivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

• Producer

• Trophic

• Decomposer

• Autotrooph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Autotrophs--The bottom trophic level where all organisms produce their own food, usually by photosynthesis.

• Trophic Levels

• Producers

• Ominvores

• Herbivores

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A secondary consumer will gain energy from what level consumer?  

• Producers
• Primary Consumers
• Tertiary Consumers
• Apex Predators

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3