| A | B |
|---|
| Living things that make their own food. | producers |
| Living things that eat or consume other living things. | consumers |
| An animal that captures and kills its food. | predator |
| An animal that is caught by a predator. | prey |
| Partnership between living things | symbiosis |
| A kind of symbiosis when both partners benefit. | mutualism |
| A kind of symbiosis when one partner benefits and one is harmed. | parasitism |
| A kind of symbiosis when one partner benefits and the other isn't harmed. | commensalism |
| Consumers that eat producers (plants). | herbivores |
| Consumers that eat other consumers. | carnivores |
| Consumers that eat both producers and consumers. | omnivores |
| Living things that get energy by breaking down the bodies of dead things. | decomposers |
| An animal that consumes dead animals, but does not kill the animals itself. | scavenger |
| The path by which energy is passed from one living thing to another. | food chain |
| Many food chains in an area combine or link together | food web |
| A place where a population of plants or animals live and interact with the environment | habitat |
| All the living things of the same kind that live in an environment | population |
| Together, all the different populations in an environment make a... | community |
| The living things and nonliving things in an environment together. | ecosystem |
| A series of changes in an ecosystem | succession |
