Ecosystems Vocab

The interaction among the organisms and the nonliving factors in an environment

• Energy

• Ecosystem

• Producer

• Omnivore

Animals that eat other animals

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Carnivore

• Ecosystem

The path that food takes from one organism to another organism

• Energy

• Food Chain

• Ecosystem

• Carnivore

An animal that eat another organism in a food chain (hint: prey)

• Producer

• Predator

• Energy

• Decomposer

____________ is used by producers to make food in an ecosystem

• Energy

• Carnivores

• Food chain

• Omnivore

Animals that only eat plants

• Omnivores

• Carnivores

• Producers

• Herbivores

Organisms that have to eat other organisms for food

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Producers

Animals that eat BOTH plants and animals

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

Organisms that consume dead organisms and return their nutrients to the soil

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Producers

Organisms that make their own food

• Decomposers

• Omnivores

• Producers

• Consumers