Web of Life Vocabulary

Front

What is a decomposer?

Back

A living thing that can break down dead living things.

Front

What is the movement of material through an ecosystem, such as through food chains and food webs?

Back

Matter flow.

Front

What is an organism?

Back

Any living thing.

Front

What is something in an experiment that you do not change?

Back

Control.

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

How living things are connected through what they eat and what they are eaten by.

Front

What is a producer?

Back

A living thing that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

Front

What is a consumer?

Back

An animal that eats other living things for energy.

Front

What is an ecosystem?

Back

A community of living things and their environment.

Front

What is biodiversity?

Back

The variety of different types of life found in an ecosystem.

Front

What is a habitat?

Back

The natural environment where an organism lives.