front 1 habitat | back 1 A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live. |
front 2 ecosystem | back 2 All the living and nonliving things in an area. |
front 3 population | back 3 A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time. |
front 4 decomposer | back 4 An organism that gets energy by breaking down wastes of dead organisms. |
front 5 consumer | back 5 An organism that cannot makes its own food; such as humans. |
front 6 prey | back 6 An organism that is eaten by another organism. |
front 7 producer | back 7 An organism that makes its own food for energy such as plants. |
front 8 predator | back 8 A consumer that hunts and eats another animal to get energy. |
front 9 community | back 9 all organisms living together in an ecosystem; they depend on one another to fill their needs |
front 10 omnivore | back 10 organism that eats producers and other consumers |
front 11 herbivore | back 11 organism that eats only plants |
front 12 carnivore | back 12 organism that eats other consumers; meat eater |
front 13 interact | back 13 to affect one another |
front 14 abiotic | back 14 nonliving parts of an ecosystem: air, water, rocks, soil, sunlight, temperature |
front 15 biotic | back 15 living parts of an ecosystem: animals, plants, bacteria |
front 16 food chain | back 16 the transfer of food energy between organisms in an ecosystem |
front 17 food web | back 17 a set of interconnected food chains |
front 18 competition | back 18 organisms needing the same resource |
front 19 photosynthesis | back 19 the process by which plants make their own food |
front 20 scavenger | back 20 An animal that eats the remains of dead animals. |