Ecosystems Vocabulary Review

the beginning of almost every food chain on Earth

• The Sun

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Decomposers

the name of the category that includes our atmosphere, water, and land

• Nonliving Factors

• Living Factors

the cold ecosystem with very few trees, located farthest from the equator

• Tundra

• Desert

• Savannah

• Tropical Rainforest

an organism’s home, the place that must provide everything that an organism needs to survive

• habitat

• biotic

• equator

• sedimentary rock

the ecosystem with the most biodiversity, located closest to the equator

• Tropical Rainforest

• Tundra

• Tiaga

• Desert

the organisms that use the energy from the sun to make their own food

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Herbivores

evidence of prehistoric life

• fossils

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

an organism that consumes both producers and consumers

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

the ecosystem that is home to grazing animals

• Grassland or Savanna

• Tiaga

• Tundra

• Desert

the name for all living things, including Plants and Animals

• organisms

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers