Terms
Consumers that are eaten by predators.
Prey
Plants need this to produce food.
Sunlight
This describes how a living thing interacts with it's habitat.
Niche
A group of food chains that overlap.
Food Web
The non-living parts of the ecosystem.
Abiotic
Eats decaying matter and helps put nutrients back into the soil.
Decomposer
An environment that meets the needs of an organism.
Habitat
This is a body part or a behavior that a living thing gets from its parents to help it survive.
Adaptation
A diagram showing how much energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain.
Energy Pyramid
A living part of an ecosystem.
Biotic
This produces energy for the ecosystem.
Producer
This describes how different organisms eat each other.
Food Chain
This is needed for plants to grow and it is one of the factors that determines which plants grow there.
Soil
This does not produce energy, it uses it up.
Consumer
Without any energy from sunlight
Both plants and animals die