Ecosystems Vocabulary

non-living parts of an ecosystem

• abiotic

• biotic

living things within an ecosystem

• abiotic

• biotic

Each layer of the energy pyramid.

• limiting factor

• trophic layer

large geographic areas with similar climates and ecosystems

• food web

• biomes

The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.

• ecology

• chemistry

eat herbivores, omnivores or other carnivores

• herbivores

• carnivore

eat producers and consumers

• carnivores

• omnivores

eat producers

• carnivores

• herbivores

organism that makes its own food, autotroph

• producer

• consumer

organism that cannot make its own food, heterotroph

• consumer

• producer