1. Ecosystems Vocabulary

2. Vocabulary in Ecosystems
Population biotic Food Web host Ecosystem Parasite Habitat Community Food Chain Decomposer Predator Energy Pyramid Niche Producer Prey Consumer Abiotic

3. Words to Know
Producer – an organism that makes it’s own food *Plants are producers Consumers – an organism that has to eat to get energy

4. Types of Consumers
herbivore – an organism that only eats plants carnivore - an organism that only eats meat omnivore – an organism that eats meat and plants

5. What do we call an environment that meets the needs of an organism?

6. An organism that is infected by a parasite is its

7. Host

8. Habitat

9. The path of energy as it flows from one organism to the next

10. Food chain

11. What do we call a diagram showing how much energy is passed on from one organism to the next in a food chain?

12. Energy Pyramid

13. What do we call a consumer that eats prey?

14. Predator

15. What do we call consumers that are eaten by predators?

16. Prey

17. What do we call a living thing that feeds on wastes and on the remains of dead plants and animals?

18. Scavenger

19. An organism that breaks down decaying organisms

20. decomposer

21. What do we call a group of food chains that overlap?

22. Food web

23. What do we call the role of an organism in an ecosystem?

24. Niche

25. What do we call the living and nonliving things in an area?

26. Ecosystem

27. What do we call a living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food?

28. Producer

29. What do we call a living thing that can’t make its own food and must eat other living things?

30. Consumer

31. What do we call a group made up of the same kind of individuals living in the same ecosystem?

32. Population

33. What do we call all the different populations that live in the same place?

34. Community

35. What do we call all living and nonliving things that surround you?

36. Environment

37. Non-living Parts of the environment

38. Abiotic

39. Living parts of the enviornment

40. Biotic

41. The clearing of forest lands

42. deforestation

43. A resource or environmental factor that limits the size of a population

44. Limiting factor

45. Carbon cycle
Nitrogen cycle