Ecosystem Vocab

all living and nonliving things in an environment

• ecosystem

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• producer

the living things in in an environment

• abiotic factor

• consumer

• biotic factor

• ecosystem

nonliving things in an environment

• decomposer

• abiotic factor

• food chain

• food web

an organism that uses energy of the sunlight to make it's own food

• omnivore

• carnivore

• consumer

• producer

an organism that must eat to get energy

• herbivore

• consumer

• decomposer

• ecosystem

an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals

• abiotic factor

• consumer

• food chain

• decomposer

the path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem

• food chain

• producer

• consumer

• omnivore

a model that shows how the food chain in an ecosystem are linked together

• producer

• food web

• carnivore

• herbivore

an organism that eats only meat

• food web

• food chain

• producer

• carnivore

an organism that eats only plants

• herbivore

• abiotic factor

• consumer

• ecosystem