5th Grade--Lesson 8 Vocabulary

Lesson 8 Vocabulary   5^th grade

1.      Carnivore—a consumer that eats mainly other animals

2.      Consumer—an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms

3.       Decomposer—an organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms or waste produced by living things

4.      Energy—the ability to make things move or change

5.      Food chain—a model that shows how energy moves from one organism to another in an ecosystem

6.      Food web—a model that shows how energy moves from one organism to another in an ecosystem.  It is made up of many different food chains.

7.      Herbivore—a consumer that eats mainly plants

8.      Omnivore—a consumer that eats both plants and animals

9.      Photosynthesis—the process by which plants and some other organisms use energy from sunlight to make their own food

10.      Producer—an organism that uses the energy from sunlight to produce its own food