Food Webs Word Search
Free Food Webs word search. We picked 12 themed words — the terms and ideas of a school subject — and laid them out on a 15×15 grid. Drag across the letters to find every word on the list.
Words to find: PRODUCER, CONSUMER, DECOMPOSER, PREDATOR, PREY, HERBIVORE, CARNIVORE, OMNIVORE, SCAVENGER, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, ENERGY, FOODCHAIN.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Food Webs word list, defined
- PRODUCER /prəˈduːsər/ · noun
- A person or organization that produces, creates, or supplies goods, services, or content. In the media industry, a producer is the person who oversees the production and financing of films, television programmes, or recordings. Related: creator, maker, manufacturer, generator.
- CONSUMER /kənˈsjuːmə/ (UK), /kənˈsuːmər/ (US) · noun
- A person who purchases goods and services for personal use, as opposed to a producer or seller; more broadly, any organism that obtains energy by consuming other organisms or organic matter. Related: buyer, customer, shopper, purchaser.
- DECOMPOSER /ˌdiːkəmˈpoʊzər/ · noun
- An organism, such as a fungus or bacterium, that breaks down dead organic matter and waste, returning nutrients to the soil or environment. Related: saprotroph, detritivore, scavenger, reducer.
- PREDATOR /ˈprɛdətər/ · noun
- An animal that hunts, kills, and feeds on other animals or their remains. By extension, a person or organization that exploits, victimizes, or preys on others. Related: hunter, carnivore, pursuer, stalker.
- PREY /preɪ/ · noun and verb
- As a noun, prey means an animal hunted by another animal, or a person or thing pursued, victimized, or exploited. As a verb, it means to hunt or seize prey, or figuratively to exploit or victimize someone. Related: victim, quarry, hunted animal, hunt.
- HERBIVORE /ˈhɜːrbɪvɔːr/ · noun
- An animal that feeds principally on plants or other vegetation. Related: plant-eater, grazer, browser, herbivorous animal.
- CARNIVORE /ˈkɑːrnɪvɔːr/ · noun
- An animal that feeds primarily on the flesh of other animals. More broadly, a person who eats meat, or an organism that obtains energy and nutrients from animal tissue. Related: predator, meat-eater, hunter, flesh-eater.
- OMNIVORE /ˈɒmnɪvɔː(r)/ (British); /ˈɑːmnɪvɔːr/ (US) · noun
- A person or animal that eats both plant and animal matter. The term can also refer to an organism that obtains energy from a wide variety of food sources. Related: eater of both, mixed feeder, generalist feeder.
- SCAVENGER /ˈskævɪndʒər/ (US), /ˈskævɪndʒə/ (UK) · noun
- A person or animal that searches for and collects discarded, leftover, or decaying material, especially someone who retrieves usable objects from rubbish or an animal that feeds on carrion. In figurative use, it can mean a person who opportunistically gathers whatever resources they can find. Related: collector, forager, opportunist, carrion feeder.
- PHOTOSYNTHESIS /ˌfoʊtoʊˈsɪnθəsɪs/ · noun
- The biological process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and other organic compounds, releasing oxygen as a by-product.
- ENERGY /ˈɛnərdʒi/ · noun
- The strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity; in physics, the property of matter and radiation that is manifest as a capacity to perform work (such as causing motion or the interaction of molecules). Related: vigor, vitality, stamina, dynamism.
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