| A | B |
|---|
| herbivore | consumer that eats only plants |
| carnivore | consumer that eats only animals |
| omnivore | consumer that eats both plants & animals |
| consumer | organism that eats other organisms |
| producer | organism that makes its own energy |
| food web | diagram that includes complex feeding relationships |
| food chain | diagram that shows one path of feeding relationships |
| population | group of one species in 1 area |
| community | all the species (plant, animal fungus) in 1 area |
| ecosystem | all living and nonliving things in 1 area |
| biome | regional or global ecosystems |
| decomposer | consumer that eats dead things and returns organic material back to the environment |
| biodiversity | the variety of living things in an ecosystem |
| biotic | living things in an ecosystem |
| abiotic | nonliving things in an ecosystem |
| keystone species | a species very important to its ecosystem |
| ecology | the study of interactions among living things & their surroundings |
