1. 4 th Grade Ecosystems Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary in 4 th Grade Ecosystems PopulationFood Web EcosystemEnvironment HabitatCommunity Food ChainDecomposer PredatorEnergy Pyramid NicheProducer PreyConsumer

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

4. Habitat

5. What do we call a series of organisms in its habitat?

6. Food chain

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

8. Energy Pyramid

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

10. Predator

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

12. Prey

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

14. Decomposer

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

16. Food web

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

18. Niche

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

20. Ecosystem

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

22. Producer

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

24. Consumer

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

26. Population

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

28. Community

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

30. Environment