Roles of Organisms in Ecosystems Vocabulary

An organism that eats other organisms (plants and/or animals) for food.

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Producer

• organism

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An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials.

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Producer

• Organism

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A unit consisting of living organisms and the environment that they live in.

• Ecosystem

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Abiotic

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A representation of the flow of energy from the sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

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The flow of energy from the sun through producers to consumers and decomposers through multiple pathways.

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

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A living thing that can function on its own

• Organism

• Producer

• Consumer

• Abiotic

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An organism that makes its own food

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Organism

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The nonliving elements in an environment. Such as the sun, water, soil, light, air, and nutrients

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Organism

• Decomposer

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The living elements in an environment

• Biotic

• Abiotc

• Ecosystem

• Food Chain

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