1. Organism

2. An individual animal, plant, or single- celled life form.

3. Producer (Autotroph)

4. Makes it own food through sunlight They make their own food

5. Consumer (Heterotroph)

6. Eats other organisms for food

7. Herbivore

8. Consumer that eats plants only

9. Carnivore

10. Consumer that eats other animals

11. Omnivore

12. Consumer that eats both animals and plants

14. Scavenger

15. Consumers that eat the bodies of already dead animals

17. Decomposer

18. Living thing that breaks down dead organisms (Recyclers )

20. Food Chain

21. A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.

22. Food Web

23. A graphic (picture) that shows the organisms that eat and get eaten in an environment.

26. Energy Pyramid

27. Habitat

28. The environment where something lives.

31. Niche

32. An organisms way of life in an ecosystem; including habitat, food, predators and competition

33. Limiting Factors

34. Anything that keeps a population from growing to large Examples: food, water, living space

35. Carrying Capacity

36. The largest population that a given environment can support over a long period of time