Science · Ecosystems
Food Chain and Food Web Vocabulary
Producers, consumers, decomposers and energy words for word games and review.
- 🎓 Grades 4–5
- 🧪 Science
- 📐 5-LS2-1
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producer
Living thing that makes its own food from sunlight
consumer
Living thing that eats other living things
decomposer
Breaks down dead plants and animals
herbivore
Animal that eats only plants
carnivore
Animal that eats only other animals
omnivore
Animal that eats both plants and animals
predator
Animal that hunts other animals
prey
Animal that is hunted for food
food chain
Path of energy from one living thing to the next
food web
Many food chains linked together
scavenger
Animal that eats dead animals it finds
energy
What living things need to move and grow
nutrients
Materials in food and soil that help things grow
ecosystem
Living and nonliving things in an area together
fungi
Group that includes mushrooms and molds
bacteria
Tiny living things too small to see
sunlight
Energy source for producers
apex predator
Hunter at the top of a food chain
primary consumer
First consumer in a chain; eats producers
photosynthesis
How plants make sugar using sunlight
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