Ecosystem vocabulary

A living thing that makes its own food is a what?

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• herbivore

An organism that gets its energy by feeding on dead animals and waste is a what?

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

• decomposer

Populations that live in the same place at the same time are called a _________.

• food chain

• community

• town

• prey

An organism that eats other organisms for food is a _________.

• producer

• prey

• consumer

• decomposer

An ecosystem is ___________.

• The living and nonliving components of an environment.

• Populations that live in the same place at the same time.

• An animal that preys on others.

• All the nonliving things in an environment

A food chain represents...

• How many animals are in an ecosystem

• The flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem

• How long the ecosystem's food will last

• An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food

Perish means...

• to laugh

• to live

• to eat

• to die

All of the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.

• population

• predator

• prey

• producer

An animal that naturally preys on others is a...

• prey

• predator

• producer

• community

An organism that is hunted and killed by another for food is a...

• predator

• prey

• producer

• population