Ecosystem Vocabulary

An organism that eats other living things to get energy

• Predator

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Food Chain

A animal that hunts other animals for food

• Decay

• Decomposer

• Omnivore

• Predator

To break down into simpler material

• Prey

• Food Chain

• Decay

• Producer

An organism that breaks down dead remains of other animals

• Adaptation

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Ecosystem

An animal that is hunted for food by an animal

• Predator

• Community

• Prey

• Producer

The path of food energy is an ecosystem as one living thing eats another

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Consumer

• Carnivore

An organism that eats both plants and animals

• Omnivore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Prey

An organism that males its own food

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Ecosystem

All of the organism that live in the same ecosystem and interact with one another.

• Adaptation

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

A characteristics that helps an organism survive in its environment.

• Community

• Photosynthesis

• Ecosystem

• Adaptation