| A | B |
| species | single kind of organism |
| population | same species that live together |
| community | several populations living in one area together |
| ecosystem | community and nonliving parts of an environment |
| habitat | environment that meets the needs of an organism |
| sulight, soil, air, water | nonliving parts of an environment |
| producer | plants |
| consumer | animals |
| decomposer | get energy from dead plants and animals |
| herbivore | animals that eat only plants |
| carnivore | animals that eat other animals |
| omnivore | animals that eat plants and animals |
| predator | animal that hunts and catches other animals |
| prey | animal caught by predator |
| parasite | organism that lives off another organism |
| host | organism that parasite lives off of |
| pollination | moving pollen on flowers to make seeds |
| food chain | movement of energy from one organism to another |
| food web | all the food chains in an ecosystem |
| niche | an organism's special role in an environment |