Unit 4 Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt

A system comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them.

An organism that makes its own food. (Autotroph)

An organism that consumes other organisms

A singular pathway showing the flow of energy from one organism to another (begins with a producer).

Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem.

The position an organism occupies in the food web or energy pyramid.

A graphical representation of the trophic levels in an ecosystem that shows the flow of energy as it gradually reduces from bottom to top.

An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.

Organisms occupying an ecosystem.

A population that comes after or follows another population.