Ecosystems and Flow of Energy Vocab REVIEW

The power or ability to do work or make something active; makes living things grow

• ecosystem

• energy

• organism

• matter

A community of living things together with their environment.

• energy

• organism

• ecosystem

• biome

All substances that contain atoms and take up space.

• matter

• producer

• consumer

• ecosystem

An individual living thing, such as a plant, an animal, or a germ.

• energy

• biome

• organism

• matter

an organism that makes it's own food

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

organisms that get energy by eating food, not by producing it.

• decomposer

• biome

• producer

• consumer

organisms that break down the remains of uneaten plants and animals that have died

• biome

• decomposer

• producer

• consumer

a group of similar living things (plants, animals, bacteria)

• biome

• ecosystem

• producer

• decomposer