Ecosystem Vocab

all of the living and nonliving things in an area

• Prey

• Producer

• Ecosystem

• Decomposer

organism that makes its own food for energy

• Photosynthesis

• Ecosystem

• Prey

• Producer

the process in which plants make a sugar called glucose

• Glucose

• photosynthesis

• chlorophyll

• Pollution

organism that makes its own food for energy

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• Competition

the process by which cells break down sugar to release energy

• consumer

• glucose

• cellular respiration

• conservation

organism that cannot make its own food

• consumer

• producer

• predator

• decomposer

a consumer that hunts and eats another animal

• consumer

• predator

• decomposer

• prey

sugar that feeds the plant and is made during

photosynthesis

• chlorophyll

• predator

• glucose

• Pollution

an attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes

• cellular respiration

• decomposer

• pollution

• conservation

organism that gets its energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms

• Decomposer

• consumer

• predator

• prey