Introduction to Ecosystems Vocabulary

The HOME of an animal or plant

• habitat

• ecosystem

• personal space

• outside

An animal that eats plants AND meat

• carinivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• decomposer

A diagram showing the interaction of several food chains

• Food Web

• Food Chain

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Plant Eaters

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

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Meat Eaters

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

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A living thing that makes its own food

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• herbivore

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The amount of energy in each level of an ecosystem

• food web

• habitat

• energy pyramid

• food pyramid

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Plants and animals that break down dead plants and animals

• consumers

• producers

• carnivores

• decomposers

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The process by which plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce food energy

• water cycle

• life cycle

• photosynthesis

• adaptation

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

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

• organism