Food chains

2. consumer An animal that eats secondary consumers.
4. A plant -eater or primary consumer.
7. consumer An animal that eats plants (also called a herbivore).
9. of energy A diagram that shows the energy content of different trophic levels of a food chain, always pyramid shaped.
11. An organism that produces its own food, such as plants using light energy in photosynthesis to produce glucose.
12. An organism that causes decay of dead material, such as many fungi and bacteria.
14. consumer An animal that eats primary consumers.
15. web A more complex diagram showing the flow of energy between organisms and their interdependence on each other. Food webs are a combination of food chains.
16. chain A simple diagram showing the flow of energy between organisms.

1. A meat eater, such as a secondary consumer or a tertiary consumer.
3. An animal that is killed and eaten by a predator.
5. The dry mass of living material.
6. of number A diagram that shows the number of individual organisms in different trophic levels of a food chain, often pyramid shaped.
8. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
10. level A feeding level in a food chain or food web, e.g. trophic level 1 are the producers.
11. of biomass A diagram that shows the biomass in different trophic levels of a food chain, often pyramid shaped.
13. An animal that kills and eats prey animals.