| A | B |
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| producer | A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food. |
| decomposer | A living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal wastes into simpler substances. |
| food web | A group of overlapping food chains |
| food chain | The transfer of food energy between organisms in an ecosystem. |
| carnivore | a meat eater |
| herbivore | a plant eater |
| omnivore | an organism that eats plants and animals |
| population | All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem i.e. all the scorpions in the Desert Southwest |
| community | A group of organisms that live in the same area and interact with each other i.e. everything alive in Fort Morgan's Nature Trail Area |
| ecosystem | A community of organisms and the environment in which we live i.e. the Arctic tundra |
| biome | A community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. |
| abiotic | non-living things i.e. rocks, viruses |
| biotic | living things i.e. bacteria, insects, hares |
| predator | animals that hunt other animals |
| scavenger | animals that consume dead organisms to obtain energy |
