Food Webs Vocabulary

All of the living and nonliving things and all of their interactions in an area

• environment

• ecosystem

• Food chain

• Food web

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The role an organism plays in its ecosystem

• niche

• producer

• food

• thrive

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy

• Primary consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• fungi

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An organism that gets its energy by feeding on producers in the food chain

• producer

• Secondary consumer

• decomposer

• Primary consumer

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An animal that eats other animals that eat plants

• Secondary consumer

• producer

• Primary consumer

• decomposer

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An organism that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without the need for internal digestion

• producer

• decomposer

• herbivore

• Primary consumer

What animals eat to get energy

• food

• carnivore

• fungi

• Food web

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A path of energy transfer from one organism to another

• producer

• Food web

• Food chain

• herbivore

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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An interconnected set of food chains

• Food web

• thrive

• Energy transfer

• food

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A type of organism that can break down just about any type or organic matter (ex. mushroom)

• niche

• food

• thrive

• fungi

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