More Animal Info Flashcards
(40 cards)
Producer
A living thing that can make its own food.
What is a living thing that can make its own food?
Producer
Consumer
A living thing that eats other living things to survive.
What a living thing that eats other living things to survive?
Consumer
Decomposer
A living thing that breaks down and feeds on once-living things.
What is a living thing that breaks down and feeds on once-living things?
Decomposer
Carnivore
An animal that only eats other animals.
What is an animal that only eats other animals?
Carnivore
Herbivore
An animal that only eats plants.
What is an animal that only eats plants?
Herbivore
Omnivore
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an animal that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
Predator
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is an animal that hunts other animals for food?
Predator
Prey
An animal hunted for food by another animal.
What is an animal hunted for food by another animal?
Prey
Food Chain
The path that energy takes through a community as one living thing eats another.
What is the path that energy takes through a community as one living thing eats another?
Food Chain
Food Web
Two or more overlapping food chains.
What is two or more overlapping food chains?
Food Web
Extinction
The dying out of all living things of a certain kind.
What is the dying out of all living things of a certain kind?
Extinction
What is an example of a food chain (using hawk, plant, snake, mouse)?
Mouse eats plants. Snake eats mouse. Hawk eats snake.
The ________ eats the plants.
mouse