Food Chains Science Unit

Consumer

• a living thing that produces its own food

• a non-living thing that provides energy

• a living thing that decomposes organic material

Ecosystem

• a type of climate zone

• a method of energy production

• a form of social organization

Food Chains

• a sequence of organisms each of which is eaten by the next one

• the process of photosynthesis in plants

• the relationship between predators and prey

Prey

• a type of plant that consumes insects

• a predator that hunts for food

• a habitat where animals live

Producer

• a type of consumer that eats plants

• an organism that decomposes organic material

• a living thing that cannot produce its own food

Predator

• a plant that absorbs nutrients from the soil

• a type of animal that only eats plants

• an animal that scavenges dead animals