| A | B |
|---|
| producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| decomposer | Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw mateials to the environment. |
| herbivores | Consumers that eat only plants. |
| carnivores | Consumers that eat only animals. |
| omnivores | Consumers that eat plants and animals. |
| scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
| food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
| food web | Many overlapping food chains. |
| energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
| herba | grass or herb |
| carnis | flesh |
| omni | all |
| vorare | to eat |
