Food Chains AND FOOD WEBS

What is the difference between a food chain and a food web? Food webs follow just one path as animals find food and energy, but a food chain shows the many different paths that energy flows through the ecosystem. A food chain follows just one path as animals find food but a food web shows the many different paths as energy flows through the ecosystem. A food chain consists of many food webs. A food chain only follows just one path as animals find food. Food Chains Matching Match each word with it's meaning. consumer an animal that gets energy by eating other producers and consumers producer It makes it own food using energy from the sun, air, and air. decomposer an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals Match. Match each word with its meaning. carnivore an animal that only eats meat herbivore an animal that only eats plants omnivore an animal that eats both plants and animals food chain the passing of energy from the sun through a series of living things organism a living thing, such as an animal or plant Identify the choices below as either a producer (which produces its own food) or a consumer (which takes in other organisms for energy). Consumer Cow Dog Orca Grasshopper Humpback Whale Producer Trees Flowers Moss Grass Algae Match parts of the food chain. Hint! The Hawk is a quaternary consumer (that means 4th level consumer.) Producer Grass Primary Consumer Grasshopper Secondary Consumer Mouse Tertiary Consumer Snake Quaternary Consumer Hawk