1. Organisms and Environments 5.9A
Interdependency
Organisms and Environments
5.9A

2. Ecosystem
A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment.

3. Living
Things that grow, change, produce waste, reproduce and die, such as plants and animals.

4. Nonliving
Things that do not grow, change and reproduce. Ex: rocks, water, soil, minerals, air, and sunlight.

5. Any living thing; plant animal, fungus, bacteria, etc.
Organism
Any living thing; plant animal, fungus, bacteria, etc.

6. Producer
An organism that uses mostly sunlight to make its own food for energy.

7. Consumer An organism that gets energy by
eating other organisms (cannot make its own food).

8. Carnivore
An animal that gets energy by only eating other animals.

9. An animal that gets energy by only eating plants.
Herbivore
An animal that gets energy by only eating plants.

10. Omnivore
An animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals.

11. Decomposer
An organism that gets energy by using dead organisms, nonliving materials, or waste as food.

12. Symbiotic/Symbiosis
A long-term relationship between two different kinds of organisms where one or both receive benefit.

13. Scavenger
Consumers that feed on dead animals; such as vultures and hyenas.

14. Interdependency
When elements within an ecosystem depend on each other to survive.

15. Parasite
An organism that lives on or inside another organism and takes nutrients away from the organism (harmful).

16. Environment
The living and nonliving things that are around an organism.