Vocabulary on Food Chain

1. carnivore-an animal that eats only meat

2. decomposer-an organism that decomposes organic material
3. herbivore-an animal that eats only eats plants
4. Omnivores-an organism that eats both producers and consumers
5. food chain-a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a
source of food
6. producer-organism that makes its own energy, usually plants
7. predator-an organism that eats other organisms
8. parasite-an organism that hurts or kills other organisms for their own benefit
9. Consumer-an organism that eats to survive
10. scavengers-organisms that search for food that is dead or almost dead