1. Food Chains Food Webs

2. Energy required by organisms to survive and comes either from the sun (for plants) or other organisms (for animals)

3. Food Chain the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

4. Food Web the movement of energy through an ecosystem involving many organisms

5. The arrow shows the direction that the ENERGY flows.

6. It all starts with the……
Sun a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the plants in the solar system
It all starts with the……

7. Producer an organism that makes its own food

8. Consumer an organism that gets energy by eating another organism

9. Decomposer an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead material and waste

10. Herbivores plant eaters (How can you tell the horse is an herbivore?)

11. Carnivores meat eaters (How can you tell these animals are carnivores

12. Omnivores eats both plants and animals

13. Predator the animal that hunts “the hunter”

14. Prey the animal that is being hunted “the hunted”