Science Review Unit 2 Lesson 4-5

characteristics that parents pass onto their offspring.

• inherited characteristic

• individual

• instinct

• ecosystem

a single living thing

• inherited characteristic

• individual

• instinct

• ecosystem

a behavior that you can do without being taught.

• inherited characteristic

• individual

• instinct

• Ecosystem

all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area.

• individual

• ecosystem

• food chain

• producers

shows how energy flows from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

• ecosystem

• food chain

• producers

• scavenger

uses energy from sunlight to make their own food.

• consumer

• scavenger

• producers

• decomposer

an organism that eats other organisms

• producers

• consumers

• decomposers

• scavengers

an organisms that feeds on the bodies of already dead oraganisms

• decomposer

• scavenger

• consumer

• producer

an organism that breaks down the remains or wastes of organisms into nutrients

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• scavenger

The beginning of the food chain always begins with.

• humans

• sun

• water

• plants