| A | B |
|---|
| decrease in population | amount of food decreases |
| population | all the members on one species that live within an area of an ecosystem |
| omnivore | animal that eats plants and animals |
| nutrients and minerals | animals need which comes through a food chain |
| swamp food chain | algae eaten by snail eat by blue heron |
| ecosystem | system where living and nonliving things interact |
| sunlight | main energy source for life |
| producer | plants, grass |
| consumer | zooplankton in a food web |
| minerals | decaying organisms put this back into the soil |
| wings | adaptation for doing their job which is eating nectar from plants |
| niche | job it does in the web: chasing food, trying to escape from predators |
| habitat | place where animal lives |
| food web | system of many food chains |
| food chain | goes in only one direction and shows how organisms transfer energy |
| carnivores | consumer that eat only animals |
| herbivores | get food energy by eating only plants |
| community | all the organisms that live in an ecosystem form this |
| decomposer | organism that eats the remains of animals |
