Vocabulary
What is the name for any living thing called?
Organism
In the shape of a line or circle, it shows what one organism can be eaten by or what it could eat.
Food Chain
Consumers that only eat plants.
Herbivores
camouflage
structural
A group of organisms that is capable of reproducing more of the same type of organism.
Species
All energy comes from the ....
Sun
A place where an animal or plant naturally lives.
Habitat
mimicry or imitating another animal using physical features
Structural
All of the different populations of species living together in the same place at the same time.
Community
This organism holds the greatest amount of energy in an ecosystem and make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.
Producers
Consumers who eat plants and animals.
omnivores
migrating south for the winter
Behavioral
What is a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place
A population.
Shows all of the examples of what an organism could be eaten by or what it could eat. A combination of all possible food chains. Includes all animals from the community.
Food Web
This organism obtains its energy by breaking down food in or on the soil.
Decomposers
hibernating during the winter months
Behavioral
What is the living and nonliving things that interact in an environment
An Ecosystem
This organism obtains its energy by eating other living things. There are three types.
Consumers
The function or role, similar to a job, that an organism performs in the food web or community.
Niche
a cactus growing thick, shallow roots to absorb rain water
Structural