Ecosystem Vocabulary 1 Assessment

an organism that can make its own food

• consumer
• producer
• biome
• tertiary consumer

A carnivore that eats secondary consumers

• consumer
• producer
• biome
• tertiary consumer

an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

• ecosystem
• carnivore
• matter
• consumer

a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy

• ecosystem
• food chain
• matter
• food web

the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

• ecosystem
• food chain
• matter
• food web

a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

• ecosystem
• food chain
• energy pyramid
• energy web

a consumer that eats only plants

• herbivore
• carnivore
• scavenger
• omnivore

a consumer that eats only animals

• herbivore
• carnivore
• scavenger
• omnivore

a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms

• herbivore
• carnivore
• scavenger
• omnivore

a consumer that eats both plants and animals

• herbivore
• carnivore
• scavenger
• omnivore