Food Chain Vocab

Hierarchical series of organism each dependent on the next as a source of food

All the interconnected and overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

Organism that makes its own food (autotroph)

Carnivores that feed on primary consumers or herbivores

Animals that eat the secondary consumers in a food chain

The position of an organism in a food web or chain

Series of changes in the population size of organisms at different trophic levels in a food chain

Efficiency at which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next predation

A predator at the top of the food chain

Organism that makes its own nutrients

Animals that feeds on flesh

Animal that feeds on plants

An organism that decomposes organic material

Describes the way energy flows in an ecosystem

Consumes primary producers

Eats plants and flesh

Shows the population or abundance of individual organisms at each level in a food chain

Cannot make its own food, eats other organisms to survive