Module 1 Vocabulary

A group of plants or animals that are alike

• population

• habitat

• species

• consumers

All the living things in one place and their

• food chain

• habitat

• ecology

• ecosystem

An animal that kills other animals for food.

• scavenge

• rodent

• predator

• consumers

Returned to the way it used to be.

• indigenous

• graze

• restored

• dominant

An area of natural land where people do not live

• wetland

• territory

• habitat

• wilderness

Having to do with the first people to live in a place

• settlers

• precolonial

• indigenous

• species

The number of people or animals living in a certain area

• habitat

• population

• species

• territory

People who move to a new place and plan to stay there

• consumers

• settlers

• rodents

• predator

The prefix meaning away from, down, or opposite

• suffix -ness

• habitat

• prefix-de

• instinct

The natural way an animal behaves without being taught

• graze

• dominant

• territory

• instinct