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What are the parts of an ecosystem?
How do organisms interact?
Vocabulary
How do organisms get and use energy?
How do people impact an ecosystem?
100
Where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
100
A consumer that hunts and eats another animal?
What is a predator?
100
A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live.
What is a habitat?
100
Organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
100
Any substance that damages the environment.
What is pollution?
200
The things an organism needs to live?
What is food, water, and shelter?
200
Any animal that is hunted by others for food.
What is prey?
200
The number of organisms that live in a habitat.
What is carrying capacity?
200
Organisms that can not make their own food.
What is a consumer?
200
A plant or animal that does not grow naturally in an ecosystem.
What is a nonnative species?
300
The living portion of an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
300
An organism that eats only plants.
What is herbivore?
300
The struggle among organisms for the same limited resource.
What is competition?
300
A living thing that makes their own food.
What is a producer?
300
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
What is conservation?
400
The non living portion of an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
400
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
What is conservation?
400
A series of steps by which energy moves from one living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
400
A way that to re-use items and help the environment.
What is recycling?
500
The balance that keeps different species from decreasing and increasing.
What is balance in ecosystems?
500
An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
500
Any substance that damages the environment.
What is pollution?
500
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
500
The garlic mustard plant grew only in Europe but then in the US.
What is it was brought to the United States for food and medicine.