Food Chains, Food Webs and Trophic Levels

An organism that makes its own food using the light of the sun

A consumer that eats other animals

An organism that obtains energy from eating other organisms

An organism that obtains energy by eating or absorbing nutrients found in animal waste and dead bodies

All of the organisms and the non-living things, such as rocks, water, sunlight and air, in an area.

This is what organisms get from food. It is required to do work and maintain life processes

a diagram with producers on the bottom and big organisms on the top that shows the amount of energy that moves through feeding levels of a food web

A diagram made up of many different food chains in an ecosystem

A series of organisms that eat other organisms to obtain energy

a consumer that only eats plants

an organism that cannot make its own food and eats other living things to gain energy

A consumer that eats both plants and animals

a process powered by sunlight that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce oxygen and glucose

an organism that makes its own food by using energy from the sun for photosynthesis

position of an organism on a food chain that indicates how many steps it is from the start of the chain