Ecology Vocabulary Con’t Part 2
Producer (Autotroph)
Consumer (Heterotroph)
Decomposer
(Heterotroph)
Makes its own food from
photosynthesis. Plants
Needs to find and eat food.
(carnivore, herbivore, omnivore)
Digests and absorbs nutrients from
decaying organisms
(Mushrooms, Bacteria)
Scavenger
Organism that eats already dead
animals
(Vultures)
Herbivore
Organism that eats only plants
(Cows, Rabbits, Deer)
Carnivore
Organism that only eats meat.
(Fox, Frog, Lion)
Omnivore
Food Chain
Organism that eats plants and meat.
(Bears, Birds, Humans)
1 dimensional
Linear progression of what organism
eats another
Grass -> grasshopper -> mouse ->
snake -> Hawk -> Mushroom
(decomposer)
Food Web
2 dimensional
Many food chains connected
together
More realistic with more information
and organisms