Vocab Fun
A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factor?
The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows.
What is habitat?
Any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need.
What is producer?
An animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers.
What is herbivore?
This ecosystem is important because of cancer-fighting plants and much of the food we eat.
What is a rainforest?
A living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic factor?
Any living thing is called an:
What is an organism?
Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals.
What is consumer?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
The top predator on the food chain
What is an apex predator?
All the living and non-living things in an environment, including their interactions with each other.
What is Ecosystems?
The path of the food energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
Any of the fungi or bacteria that break down dead plants and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil.
What is decomposer?
An animal that eats another animal.
What is carnivore?
This ecosystem has almost half of the world's plants.
What is the ocean?
All the members of one species in an area.
What is population?
The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem?
What is Food Web?
A meat eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is predator?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web?
What is an energy pyramid?
All the different populations that live together in an area.
What is community?
Water, air, sun, soil, temperature
What are abiotic factors?
The level of consumer that eats a producer.
What is a first level consumer?
A living thing that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
Energy in the food chain decreases at each level because:
What is It is lost as heat and used for life processes?