| A | B |
|---|
| Organism that eat other living things are called this. | consumer |
| Organism that makes its own food | producer |
| Something that eats only other animals. | carnivore |
| Something that only eats plants. | herbivore |
| Something that eats both plants and animals. | omnivore |
| Organisms that break down plant & animal waste | decomposers |
| Area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem | habitat |
| Important material that living things need | resource |
| System of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions. | Food web |
| The transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating & being eaten | Food chain |
| All the members of one species that live in an area | population |
| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that flows from producers to consumers | energy pyramid |
| Occurs when two or more organisms need the same resource in order to survive | competition |
| An animal that hunts other animals for food | predator |
| An animal that is hunted by other animals as food | prey |
| animal at the top of a food web | apex predator |
| something that is living | biotic |
| something that is not living | aboitic |
| the movement of worn away rocks and soil | erosion |
| a living thing | organism |
| special physical traits that help organisms survive in their habitats | structure |
| all the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact | ecosystem |
| this passed on in a food chain | energy |
| Process by which the green part of plants absorb sunlight & use it, carbon dioxide, & water to make its own food | photosynthesis |
