Classifying Organisms Vocabulary

Any individual living thing.

• Decomposer
• Organism
• Producer
• Abiotic

All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other.

• Organism
• Habitat
• Ecosystem
• Decomposer

All of the living parts of an ecosystem.

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Habitat
• Producer

All of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic
• Biotic
• Organism
• Habitat

An organism that eats other living things to get energy;  an organism that does not produce its own food.

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer
• Population

An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals.

• Decomposer
• Consumer
• Population
• Producer

Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms.

• Consumer
• Decomposer
• Producer
• Biotic

A group of organisms of the same species that share a habitat and can breed with each other.

• Community
• Population
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

A group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment.

• Community
• Population
• Ecosystem
• Habitat

The location in which an organism lives.

• Community
• Population
• Ecosystem
• Habitat