Vocabulary 1
The process by which green plants and some other plant-like organisms make food.
Photosynthesis
Organisms that make their own food.
Producers
Meat-eating consumers.
Carnivore
Animals that hunt other animals for food.
Predator
Found in the structures of plant cells this green molecule helps photosynthesis take place.
Chlorophyll
Organisms that break down, or decompose, wastes and the remains of dead organisms.
Decomposer
Both meat-eating and plant-eating organisms
Omnivores
The transfer of food energy from one organism to the next in an ecological community.
Food Chain
Protecting the ecosystem and the organisms living in them.
Conservation
Organisms that cannot make their own food.
Consumers
Plant-eating organisms
Herbivores
Shows how energy passes from one organism to another up a food chain.
Energy Pyramid
A species that grows quickly overtaking a new environment.
Invasive Species
Physical part of an ecosystem that meets the needs of an organism.
Habitat
A food web shows how food chains overlap-”What eats What!”
Food Web
All living and non-living in an area and their interactions make up an ecosystem.
Ecosystem
The role of an organism in their habitat.
Niche
Ecosystem has been disturbed but the soil remains.
Secondary Succession
Begins on bare rock and dust settles in the cracks.
Primary Succession
The gradual change of organisms in an ecosystem
Succession