Web of Life Vocabulary

What is a producer?

• A living thing that makes its own food

• An animal that eats only plants

• A living thing that eats other living things

• A living thing that can break down dead living things

What is a consumer?

• An animal that eats only plants

• A living thing that eats other living things

• A living thing that makes its own food

• The process of breaking down dead living things

What is a herbivore?

• An animal that eats only plants

• An animal that eats only other animals

• An animal that eats both plants and animals

• A living thing that can break down dead living things

What is a carnivore?

• An animal that eats only plants

• An animal that eats only other animals

• An animal that eats both plants and animals

• A living thing that makes its own food

What is an omnivore?

• An animal that eats only plants

• An animal that eats only other animals

• An animal that eats both plants and animals

• A living thing that can break down dead living things

What is a decomposer?

• A living thing that makes its own food

• An animal that eats only plants

• A living thing that can break down dead living things

• An animal that eats both plants and animals

What does it mean to decompose?

• The process of making food

• The process of breaking down dead living things

• The process of eating plants

• The process of eating animals

What is a fungus?

• A type of plant that grows in water

• A living thing that is a decomposer and has spores, such as a mold or a mushroom

• An animal that hunts other animals

• A type of bacteria found in soil

What is a food chain?

• A series of events where animals play games

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

• A type of plant that grows in a line

• A group of animals living together

What is a food web?

• A single line of animals eating each other

• Many different food chains found in one place

• A type of spider's web

• A group of plants growing together