Ecosystem - Vocabulary

A ________ is a group of food chains that overlap.

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Chain Link

• Food Link

All of the living and nonliving things in an area make up an ____________.

• Population

• Niche

• Ecosystem

• Instinct

An _________ is a body part of behavior that helps a living thing survive.

• Ecosystem

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Adaptation

The role of a living thing is its _________.

• Niche

• Population

• Adaptation

• Instinct

__________ is the loss of a kind of living thing.

• Habitat

• Extinction

• Niche

• Adaptation

A behavior that an animal is born with is an ___________.

• Community

• Instinct

• Niche

• Habitat

A ________ is all the populations that live in the same place.

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

• Population

• Community

A series of organisms that depend on one another for food creates a ________________.

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Extinction

• Population

A ____________ is an environment that meets the needs of an organism.

• Adaptation

• Community

• Population

• Habitat

A __________ is a group of the same kinds of living things.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Extinction

• Adaptation