Interdependency Vocabulary

All of the living and non-living things and all of their interactions in an area.

• ecosystem
• adaptation
• consumer
• living

Characterized by having a metabolism and the ability to maintain life processes.

• living
• non-living
• ecosystem
• consumer

Part of the ecosystem that is not living, such as sunlight, air, water, rocks, and soil.

• Nonliving
• living
• ecosystem
• consumer

An inherited characteristic that provides a specific advantage to individuals that have it and becomes more common in a population because of the advantage that it provides.

• adaptation
• ecosystem
• consumer
• herbivore

An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.

• consumer
• producer
• herivore
• omnivore

An animal that gets it's energy by only eating plants.

• herbivore
• omnivore
• decomposer
• carnivore

An animal that gets it's energy by eating both plants and animals.

• omnivore
• hebivore
• decomposer
• carnivore

An organism that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without need for internal digestion.

• decomposer
• symbiotic
• carnivore
• producer

A long-term relationship between two different kinds of organisms where one or both receive benefit.

• symbiotic
• carnivore
• producer
• organism

An animal that gets energy by only eating other animals.

• carnivore
• herbivore
• omnivore
• producer