Ecosystem 1
Habitat
The natural home of a plant or animal.
Environment
– Everything around a living thing, like air, water, and land.
Carnivore
– An animal that eats only other animals.
Water
– A basic need for all living things.
Prey
– An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
Organism
– Any living thing (like animals, plants, fungi, or bacteria).
Food Chain
– A path that shows how energy moves from one living thing to another.
Omnivore
– An animal that eats both plants and animals.
Soil
– The ground where many plants grow.
Climate
– The usual weather in a place over a long time.
Species
– A group of similar organisms that can reproduce together.
Producer
– A plant that makes its own food using sunlight.
Decomposer
– Organisms like fungi or bacteria that break down dead plants and animals.
Adaptation
– A change that helps a living thing survive in its environment.
Interaction
– How living things act with each other.
Community
– All the different living things in one area.
Consumer
– An animal that eats plants or other animals.
Energy
– The power that living things need to grow and move.
Balance
– When all parts of an ecosystem work well together.
Graph
Where things are placed to study
Population
– A group of the same kind of organism living in the same place.
Herbivore
– An animal that eats only plants.
Sunlight
– The main source of energy for most ecosystems.
Predator
– An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
Pollution
– Harmful things added to the air, water, or land that hurt living things.