Ecosystem Vocabulary Review

An organism that eats other living things to get energy 

• consumer
• ecosystem
• producer
• population

All living and nonliving things that exist and interact in one place 

• population
• community
• ecosystem
• consumer

Any organism that makes its own food 

• consumer
• producer
• population
• herbivore

All the organisms of the same kind that live in an ecosystem 

• community
• organism
• habitat
• population

All the organisms that live in the same ecosystem and interact with each other 

• community
• habitat
• ecosystem
• habitat

An animal that only eats other animals 

• omnivore
• herbivore
• carnivore

The path of energy in an ecosystem as one living thing eats another 

• food chain
• food web
• food pyramid
• mimicry

two or more food chains that overlap

• predator
• ecosystem
• food web
• food chain

An animal that only eats plants

• omnivore
• herbivore
• carnivore

An organism that breaks down the remains of dead organism 

• scavenger
• decomposer
• decay
• rodent