Key Vocabulary
Food Chain: sequence that lings species by their feeding relationships
Herbivores: eat only plants
Carnivores: eat only meat
Omnivores: eat plants and meat
Detritivores: eat dead organic matter
Decomposers: are detritivores that break down organic matter into simpler compounds
Specialist: is a consumer that primarily eats one specific organism or feeds on a very small number of organisms.
Generalists: a consumer that have a varying diet.
Trophic levels:levels of nourishment in a food chain.
Food Web: is a model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships and a flow of energy within and sometimes beyond and ecosystem.
Herbivores: eat only plants
Carnivores: eat only meat
Omnivores: eat plants and meat
Detritivores: eat dead organic matter
Decomposers: are detritivores that break down organic matter into simpler compounds
Specialist: is a consumer that primarily eats one specific organism or feeds on a very small number of organisms.
Generalists: a consumer that have a varying diet.
Trophic levels:levels of nourishment in a food chain.
Food Web: is a model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships and a flow of energy within and sometimes beyond and ecosystem.