Vocabulary: Food Webs
An animal that eats other animals
Predator
All of the and non-living things in an area that interact with one another
Ecosystem
The process that plants use to make sugar for food from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
Photosynthesis
An animal that is hunted by other animals
Prey
Any substance that damages an environment
Pollution
The art of a plant cell that traps sunlight so that its energy can be used to make sugar.
Chlorophyll or chloroplasts.
An organism that makes its own food for energy
The struggle among organisms for limited resources, such as food, space, water, and shelter.
Competition
Plants take in ______________ and give off ______________ through holes in their leaves.
Carbon dioxide, oxygen
An organism that relies on other organisms for food
Consumer
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
Conservation
The process by which cells break down sugar and release energy
Cellular respiration
An organism that gets its energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
A species that is brought into a new ecosystem by humans.
Invasive species
The part of the plant cell in which cellular respiration occurs
Mitochondria