Role of Organisms & the Flow of Energy Vocabulary

Eats only animals.

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

Living things that make their own food.

• Consumers

• Producers

• Decomposers

An environment that meets the needs of an organism.

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Habitat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Groups of living things and the environments they live in.

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Habitat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Nonliving things that help sustain life in an ecosystem.

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Living things that make up an ecosystem.

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Shows one pathway for food energy from organism to organism.

• Ecosystem

• Food Web

• Habitat

• Food Chain

Feeds on the waste of plants and animals or on their remains after they die.

• Consumers

• Producers

• Decomposers

• Carnivores

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All the populations living in the same area.

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

Shows how several food chains connect and overlap.

• Food Chain

• Food Web