Vocabulary - Resource Availability

An organism that is unable to make its own food. Obtains nutrients and energy by consuming (eating) other organisms. 

• Producer

• Consumer

• Food web

• Ecosystem

Organisms that break down the waste or remains of other organisms. 

• Decomposer

• Food chain

• Population

• Communtity

Way of showing how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community.

• Ecosystem

• Food web

• Food chain

• Carnivore

Way of showing how food chains are related.

• Ecosystem

• Decomposer

• Food chain

• Food web

Different species that exist in an ecosystem

• Producer

• Community

• Consumer

• Omnivore

A meat-eating animal

• food web

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• decomposer

A plant-eating animal

• Herbivore

• Producer

• Food web

• Food chain

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

• Population

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

Organisms of the same species living in the same area.

• Decomposer

• Food web

• Community

• Population

All things in a given area, living and nonliving, interact with each other.

• Decomposer

• Ecosystem

• Consumer

• food chain