Food Chains Flashcards
Grade 2 · Science · Flashcards
Review key words about food chains and how energy moves through living things.
Flashcards
- food chain
- The path that shows how energy moves from plants to animals through eating
- producer
- A green plant that makes its own food using sunlight, water, and air
- consumer
- An animal that must eat other living things to get energy
- herbivore
- An animal that eats only plants — like a deer, rabbit, or cow
- carnivore
- An animal that eats only other animals — like a hawk, wolf, or shark
- omnivore
- An animal that eats both plants and animals — like a bear or a human
- decomposer
- A living thing (like worms or mushrooms) that breaks down dead plants and animals
- photosynthesis
- The process plants use to make food using sunlight, water, and air
- prey
- An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
- predator
- An animal that hunts and eats other animals
- energy
- The power that all living things need; plants get it from the sun and animals get it from food
- nutrients
- Helpful materials in food and soil that living things need to grow
- scavenger
- An animal that eats animals that are already dead, like a vulture
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