Food Energy in Ecosystems

The living and nonliving things in an area

• ecosystem

• habitat

• producer

• consumer

A group of the same kind of living things in an ecosystem

• ecosystem

• producer

• population

• consumer

A living thing that can make its own food with energy from the sun

• consumer

• producer

• population

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A living thing that eats plants or other animals; can't make its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An environment that meets the needs of an organism where it lives

• ecosystem

• population

• habitat

• food chain

A living thing that feeds on the remains of dead plants and animals

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• habitat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

a series of organisms that depend on each other for food; the organisms are food energy and this energy moves in a sequence

• food web

• prey

• predator

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A group of food chains that overlap

• food web

• food chain

• population

• prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumers that are eaten by predators

• population

• producers

• prey

• consumers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A consumer that eats prey; the hunter

• prey

• producer

• consumer

• predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2