Ecosystem vocabulary

Organism that gets energy from dead or decaying things.

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• herbivore

Living things that must eat to get energy.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• prey

Animals that hunt other animals.

• decomposers

• producers

• predator

• prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Living things that make their own food.

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers

• predators

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Animals that eat only plants.

• omnivores

• producers

• herbivores

• carnivores

Animals that are hunted.

• predator

• prey

• consumers

• producers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Animals that eat BOTH plants and animals.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

• omnivore

The path of energy from one living thing to another.

• producer

• food chain

• consumer

• list

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Animals that consume only other animals.

• carnivore

• prey

• omnivore

• herbivore

A group of the same kind of organisms that reproduce.

• decomposers

• producers

• carnivores

• species