| A | B |
| producer | a living thing containing chlorophyll |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants or plant materials |
| consumer | a living thing that eats other living things |
| carnivore | an animal that eats only other living things |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and animals |
| decomposer | a living thing that feeds off dead materials |
| food chain | the arraigment of living things in an order in whicheach uses the next as a source of food |
| aphids | little insects on tree leaves get eaten by flying insects |
| energy flow | when the energy flows from one living thing to an other |
| food web | a combination of the food chains in an ecosystem |
| food pyrimid | a pyrimid to show how the amount of food changes |
| carrying capcity | the maximum number of living things that a given can support without danger to survivalof living things |
| limiting factor | a factor that controls the number of living things that can ecosystem can support |
| cycle | the movement of resourses in an ecosystem that results in materials being used again and again |
| receiving energy | receive energy by eating the stored food in plants and other organisms |
| water cycle | a continuos prosses:the evaperation of water, condensation of water, and precipitation of water |
| evaperation | is the key from this cycle, the water evaperates from soil and plants |
| using energy | when the plants make food, most of it is used by plants |
| cycles | all the food chains that are found in a community would look more like a webthan a food chain |
| amount of food | the differences in the sizes of population are due to the amount of food energy availibleto each population |