Life Science C1: L2

Main Idea: Food chains describe the flow of matter and energy among living things in an environment. A complete food chain includes producers, consumers, and decomposers.

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Vocab

food chain: the path that energy takes from one organism to another in the form of food.

Producer: an organism that makes its own food.

Consumer: an organism that eats other organisms

Decomposer: an organism that braks down other organisms

Herbivore: an animal that eats mainly plants

Carnivore: an animal that eats mainly other animals

Omnivore: an animal that eats both plants and animals