habitat
A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live.
ecosystem
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
population
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time.
decomposer
An organism that gets energy by breaking down wastes of dead organisms.
consumer
An organism that cannot makes its own food; such as humans.
prey
An organism that is eaten by another organism.
producer
An organism that makes its own food for energy such as plants.
predator
A consumer that hunts and eats another animal to get energy.
community
all organisms living together in an ecosystem; they depend on one another to fill their needs
omnivore
organism that eats producers and other consumers
herbivore
organism that eats only plants
carnivore
organism that eats other consumers; meat eater
interact
to affect one another
abiotic
nonliving parts of an ecosystem: air, water, rocks, soil, sunlight, temperature
biotic
living parts of an ecosystem: animals, plants, bacteria
food chain
the transfer of food energy between organisms in an ecosystem
food web
a set of interconnected food chains
competition
organisms needing the same resource
photosynthesis
the process by which plants make their own food
scavenger
An animal that eats the remains of dead animals.