Food Webs/Matter Cycles Vocabulary

An individual living things,such as animals or a plants,is called an

• Animal

• plant

• Organism

• Nutrition

What are the living and nonliving things in an environment or area?

• predator

• producer

• ecosystem

• abiotic factor

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An organism that can make its own food

• decomposer

• producer

• consumer

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Breaks down and feeds on the remains of other organisms

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

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Interacting food chains found in an ecosystem

• food web

• food chain

• predator

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These organisms cannot make their own food; they must eat something for energy

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

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All of the living and nonliving components that interact in an environment.

• population

• ecosystem

• community

• organism

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________________ are consumers that eat ONLY PLANTS.

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Producers

__________________ are consumers that eat ONLY MEAT (other animals)?

• Omnivores

• Carnivores

• Producers

• Herbivores

__________________ are consumers that eat BOTH Plants and Animals for food.

• Omnivores

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores