Ecosystem Organisms Vocab

A consumer that eats only plants.

• producer

• herbivore

• omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals.

• carnivore

• omnivore

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A consumer that eats only other animals.

• carnivore

• omnivore

• decomposer

An organism that makes its own food.

• consumer

• producers

• herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Is a consumer that eats both plants and animals.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

Is a living thing that needs to gather and hunt food in order to survive.

• producer

• decomposer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A food chains shows how energy is passed from one living thing to another.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism