| A | B |
| consumer | an animal that eats other plants or animals in order to get their energy and live |
| producer | a plant that makes it's own food |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats other consumers - meat eaters |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats producers - plant eaters |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats other consumers or producers - plant and meat eaters |
| Food Chain | the path energy and materials take in a community; who eats who |
| predator | consumer that hunts, kills and eats other animals |
| prey | an animal that predators hunt and eat |
| decomposer | gets energy from dead plants and animals |
| Food Web | shows different pathways for the flow of energy in a ecosystem |
| Life Cycle | the stages of growth and development that an animal/plant goes through in it's life |
| reproduce | making more animals of the same kind |
| Metamorphosis | changes in form at eat stage of an animals life |