Vocabulary
What is the beginning group of all food chains? They can make their own food.
producers
What is the function or job that an organism has in its community?
a niche
mushrooms
decomposer
What is a consumer that only eats meat or other animals?
carnivore
What ecosystem would you find a dry climate, sand, and cacti year round?
a desert ecosystem
grass
a producer
What is a living thing that gets energy by eating only plants for food?
herbivore
What is it called when we group organisms by similar traits?
classifying
wolves
a consumer
What is a group of different populations of plants and animals living in the same area?
a community
What is the tool used to classify organisms based on their traits?
a dichotomous key
bacteria
a decomposer
What is a place that animal or plant naturally lives in?
a habitat
What is a consumer that eats both plants and animals for energy?
omnivore
Energy for almost all ecosystems on Earth begins with the _______.
sun
oak tree
producer