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.