Ecosystem Vocabulary

The picture shows a living thing that makes its own food, What do we call these?

• Population
• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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All of the organisms that live in the same ecosystem and interact with each other is a _____________. 

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Habitat

What do we call the place where an animal lives?

• Home
• Habitat
• Community 
• Population 

If there are too many fish in a single pond and they don't have enough food to eat, we could say that their food source is _________. 

• Scarce
• Over-abundant
• Old
• Extinct 

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An organism is __________

• a dead animal
• a plant that grows underwater
• a predator
• a living thing

Consumers are living things that eat plants or other animals in order to get energy. 

• True 
• False

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All of the living parts of an ecosystem are _______ factors. 

• abiotic
• biotic
• organism 
• scarce

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If a baby fox is being followed by a hawk, the fox is considered the hawk's _________. 

• predator
• population
• prey
• community 

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If an animal is over-abundant, that means there are _____ of the them. 

• too many
• not enough
• a shortage 
• just enough

A group of organisms that are the same kind and live in the same place are called a ___________. 

• pack
• pride
• population
• predator