Food Chains Vocabulary 5.9A – OBSERVE THE WAY ORGANISMS LIVE AND SURVIVE IN THEIR ECOSYSTEM BY INTERACTING WITH THE LIVING AND NONLIVING ELEMENTS 5.9B - DESCRIBE HOW THE FLOW OF ENERGY DERIVED FROM THE SUN, USED BY PRODUCERS TO CREATE THEIR OWN FOOD, IS TRANSFERRED THROUGH A FOOD CHAIN AND FOOD WEB TO CONSUMERS AND DECOMPOSERS

Ecosystem All living and nonliving things interacting in an environment.  LIVING: trees, grass, flowers, deer, wolf, bunny, snake, butterflies, mouse, hawk, bees  NONLIVING: rocks, water, air, dead tree branch

Habitat Place where organism lives and finds everything it needs to survive

Niche Role of plant or animal plays in its habitat  How organism acts in environment  Where it lives  Interaction with other species  What it eats/ what eats it  Movement on a day-to-day basis

Producer Living things that can make its own food. (Plants)

Consumer Living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things  Just plants  Just animals  Both plants and animals

Herbivore Organism that only feeds on grass and/or plants  Horse  Cow  Mouse  Sheep  Zebra  Koala  Grasshopper  Elephant  Caterpillar

Carnivore Organism that only feeds on other animals (meat)  Wolf  Lion  Tiger  Orca  Shark  Dog  Hawk  Cat  Octopus

Omnivore Organism that eats both plants and animals  Humans  Tigers  Rhino  Tortoise  Bear  Pig  Alligator  Cat  Racoon

Decomposer A living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal waste into simpler substances.  Flies  Worms  Snails  Beetles  Bacteria  fungi Mushrooms Moss Mold

Population All organisms of same kind that live together in an ecosystem