5th Grade Unit 2.2 Vocabulary

1

100

A location or structure that gives protection from danger or bad weather

Shelter

200

To act on one another

Interact

300

An organism that eats other living things that eats other living things to get energy; an organism, that does not produce its own food

Consumer

2

100

To take in

Absorb

200

A model that shows how energy passes from one organism to another in an ecosystem

Food chain

300

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Prey

3

100

A process that repeats

Cycle

200

To create new materials from used products

Recycle

300

Organism that carries out the process of breaking things down into dead or decaying organisms

Decomposer

4

100

Any star around which planets revolve

Sun

200

All the living and nonliving things that surround an organism

Environment

300

Shows the ways in which many food chains work with one another in an ecosystem

Food Web

5

100

All living and nonliving things in an area that interact with one another

Ecosystems

200

An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

Producer