Ecosystem Vocabulary

Animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• Prey

• Consumer

• Predator

• Carnivore

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Organism that makes its own food.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

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The living and nonliving things in an environment and all the interactions

• population

• food chain

• ecosystem

• community

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An organism,such as a plant, that makes its own food

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• niche

An organism that BREAKS DOWN wastes and the remains of other animals

• producer

• consumer

• niche

• decomposer

When a species completely dies out of an ecosystem

• decomposer

• scavenger

• predator

• extinction

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An organism that gets its energy by eating plants or other animals

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• niche

The pattern that shows how food chains are related in an ecosystem

• food web

• food chain

• ecosystem

• niche

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The role or job of each organism

• prey

• niche

• herbivore

• carnivore

The ability of an organism to blend in with its environment in order to remain safe from predators

• camouflaging

• hibernation

• extinction

• predator

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