| A | B |
| ecosystem | The living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions. |
| community | The living part of an ecosystem. |
| population | One type of organism living in an area. |
| organism | Any living thing. |
| niche | the (role) job an organism has in its habitat |
| producer | An organism that makes its own food. |
| consumer | Any organism that eats food producers make or eats other consumers. |
| habitat | The home of an organism. |
| carnivore | A consumer that eats only animals. |
| herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants |
| omnivore | A consumer that eats animals and plants. |
| predator | Living things that hunt other living things. |
| prey | an organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator |
| food chain | the steps in which organisms get the food they need to survive |
| food web | The pattern that shows how food chains are related. |
| sun | he original source of energy in an ecosystem |