Ecosystem Vocabulary Words Pre-assessment

Living and non living things that interact in an environment

• ecosystem

• population

• habitat

A place where a living thing makes its home

• ecosystem

• habitat

• population

All the living things of the same kind that live in the same place

• population

• ecosystem

• community

a living thing that makes it own food

• producer

• consumer

• herbivore

a living thing that makes its own food

• producer

• consumer

• herbivore

animal that eats plants

• producer

• herbivore

• carnivore

an animal that eats meat

• herbivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

a living thing that breaks down waste and dead plants and animals

• herbivore

• decomposer

• consumer

the movement of energy from one living thing to the next

• food chain

• food web

• competition

a system of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions

• food chain

• food web

• competition