Ecosystem Vocabulary

Master ecosystem vocabulary! Define terms like producer, consumer, biotic & abiotic.

Type the word from the word bank that matches the definition. Spell Correctly! Producer an organism that makes it own food; they use sunlightabiotic nonliving parts of an environment such as climate, water, soil, light, air and nutrientsenvironment the surroundings that an organism lives incarbon dioxide-oxygen cycle the natural cycling of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the Earth systemcarnivore meat eaters; animals that eat other animalsphotosynthesis the process by which green plants make carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyll using light as energypopulation 2 or more organisms of the SAME species living in the SAME placefood chain traces the path of energy from one organism to another organism in an ecosystembiotic living parts of an environment such as plants, animals and other organismsomnivore plants and animal eatersenergy pyramid shows the amount of energy available to pass from one level of a food chain to the nextfood web overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystemcompetition interactions between species to meet needsdiversity variety of different species that live in an ecosystemcarbon dioxide a colorless, odorless gas composed of oxygen and carbon. In animals, it is exhaled during respiration. Plants use this gas during photosynthesis.community all the populations living in one area; this includes all plants and animalshabitat the part of an ecosystem where an organism livesconsumer an organism that gets energy by eating other organismsdecomposer an organism that breaks down dead animal matter, dead plant matter, or animal waste; they return nutrients to the soilherbivore plant eating organismsniche the role an animal plays in its habitatpredator animals that kill and eat other animalsprey an animal that is killed and eaten by other animals Draw an ecosystem and label each part using at least 5 of the vocab