Ecology Intro Vocab

An animal that other animals hunt and eat.

• Prey

• Organism

• Producer

• Consumer

A living Thing

• Organism

• Producer

• Prey

• Abiotic

An organism that uses sun, water, and oxygen to make food.

• Biotic

• Producer

• Abiotic

• Consumer

A living thing in an ecosystem.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Biotic

• Abiotic

A NON-living thing in an ecosystem.

• Biotic

• Food Chain

• Parasite

• Abiotic

A living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things

• Consumer

• Parasite

• Prey

• Producer

An organism that absorbs nutrients from the body of another

• Producer

• Parasite

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

A model used to show which animals consume each other

• Parasite

• Herbivore

• Food Chain

• Prey

An animal that hunts other animals and eats them.

• Predator

• Population

• Herbivore

• Community

All the members of one species in an area.

• Community

• Predator

• Abiotic

• Population