Unit 2 Vocabulary

Producer: ________ that can make its own food.

• Organisms

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

Consumer: Organisms that has to eat other ________ for energy.

• organisms

• plants

• minerals

• water

Herbivore: Gain their energy through eating only ________.

• plants

• meat

• insects

• fish

Carnivore: Gain their energy through eating only ________.

• meat

• plants

• fruits

• grains

Omnivore: Gains their energy by eating ________ and animals.

• plants

• minerals

• water

• rocks

Scavenger: Gain their energy through eating dead ________.

• animals

• plants

• rocks

• insects

Decomposer: Organisms that breaks down dead organisms into ________.

• nutrients

• water

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

Biotic: Living ________ in an ecosystem.

• organisms

• rocks

• water

• sunlight

Abiotic: Non-living ________ in an ecosystem.

• organisms

• factors

• elements

• components

Ecosystem: Community of organisms ________ together.

• interacting

• isolating

• competing

• separating