Vocabulary
Made up of all living and nonliving things in an environment.
What is an ecosystem.
An organism, such as a plant, that makes its own food.
What is a producer.
________________factors include all of the living things in an environment. Examples: Plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
What are biotic factors
All members of a single species in an area, at a given time, form a _____________________.
What is a population.
__________________________ are animals that eat both plants and other animals.
The place in an ecosystem where an organisms lives.
What is a habitat.
An an organism that eats plants or other animals
What is a consumer
________________ factors are the nonliving things in the environment. Examples: Air, water, soil, rocks, and light .
What are abiotic factors.
Together, all the populations in an ecosystem make up a _______________________.
What is a community.
___________ model a series of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem. This is the path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain.
A special role that an organism plays in an ecosystem.
What is a niche
An organism that breaks down dead plants or animals. Hint: all food chains end with this.
What is a decomposer
The place in an ecosystem where an organism lives is its _______________________.
What is a habitat.
A _______________________ is an organism that makes its own food by using the energy of a sunlight to make sugar and oxygen in a process called photosynthesis.
What is a producer.
________________________ are the base of all food chains. Energy in a food chain moves from producers to consumers. Energy only flows one way.
What are producers.
A path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem
What is a food chain.
a consumer that hunts for its food
What is a predator
Each living thing has a _________________, a special role that an organism plays in an ecosystem. Example: Two birds in a rainforest canopy that eat different foods. One eats insects and the other eats plants.
What is a niche
_____________________ eat only producers
What is a herbivore
In an ecosystem there are many food chains that overlap. A __________________ ___________________ is a model that shows how the food chains in an ecosystem are linked together.
What is a food web.
A model that shows how the food chains in an ecosystem are linked together
What is a food web
Consumers that are eaten by predators
What are prey
The most specific group an organism can be classified into is a _____________________
What is a species.
_________________________ eat only other animals.
What is a carnivore.
The source of all energy in a food chain is the ______. This energy is stored in food made by producers.
What is the sun.