Ecosystems Section 3 Vocabulary

What is a food chain?

• the interaction of all living things in an area

• a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

• the process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food

• living things that eat food (animals)

What is a carnivore?

• physical place where an organism lives: its shelter

• an animal that eats only plants

• an animal that eats both plants and animals

• an animal that eats only other animals

What is a herbivore?

• an animal that eats only plants

• an animal that eats only other animals

• an animal that eats both plants and animals

• living things that make their own food (plants)

What is an omnivore?

• living things

• an animal that eats only other animals

• an animal that eats only plants

• an animal that eats both plants and animals

What is a producer?

• living things that break down dead plant and animal matter and return their nutrients to the soil

• a group of the same type of organism living in an area

• living things that make their own food (plants)

• living things that eat food (animals)

What is photosynthesis?

• the process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food

• living things that break down dead plant and animal matter and return their nutrients to the soil

• a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

• the interaction of all living things in an area

What are decomposers?

• living things that eat food (animals)

• an animal that eats only other animals

• muggles

• living things that break down dead plant and animal matter and return their nutrients to the soil

What is a community?

• living things

• a group of the same type of organism living in an area

• the interaction of all living things in an area

• a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

What is an organism?

• a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

• the process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food

• living things that eat food (animals)

• living things

What is population?

• a group of the same type of organism living in an area

• the interaction of all living things in an area

• an animal that eats both plants and animals

• an animal that eats only other animals