Biodiversity Vocabulary

An organism that eats another organism to get energy

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Prey

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A diagram that shows how food chains are connected in an ecomsystem.

• food web

• food chain

• parasitism

• mutualism

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An organism that makes its own food through the process of photosynthesis.

• decomposer

• carnivore

• producer

• herbivore

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A relationship between two oganisms were one organism is helped and the other is harmed.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

• food web

An organism that breaks down dead organisms and puts the nutrients back into the soil.

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A diagram that shows how energy flows in one path through an ecosystem.

• predator

• food web

• decomposer

• food chain

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An animal that gets its energy from eating only plants.

• producer

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

A relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits and the other is not affected.

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

• omnivore

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

• predator

• prey

• carnivore

• herbivore

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An animal that gets its energy from eating only other animals.

• decomposer

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

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