Food Webs (5.9B)

The student is expected to describe how the flow of energy derived from the Sun, used by producers to create their own food, is transferred through a food chain and food web to consumers and decomposers.

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Vocabulary: 

Producer: An organism that used sunlight to make its own food for energy

Consumer: An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

Decomposer: An organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, nonliving materials, or waste

Energy: What is needed to do work or cause change

Sun: A typical star that is source of light and heat for plants in the solar system

Food Chain: The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

Food Web: A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem

Predator: An animal that hunts and feeds on another organism

Nocturnal: Active at night
 

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