Ecosystem review

all the living things and nonliving things in a given area

• habitat

• ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

a living thing that can make its own food (plants)

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

a living thing that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

a living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things (animals)

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Any living thing

• food chain

• producer

• decomposer

• organism

A series of steps in which living things transfer energy by eating and being eaten; also called food web

• food chain

• food rope

• food trail

• food train

An animal that hunts other animals for food (an alligator)

• prey

• predator

• producer

• decomposer

an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food (a fish)

• prey

• predator

• producer

• decomposer

another name for a food chain

• food bank

• food community

• food network

• food web

an animal that eats only plants

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5