Interdependency

an organism that gets energy by using dead organisms, nonliving materials or waste as food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• herbivore

an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

• omnivore

an animal that gets energy by eating other animals

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

• prey

an organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy- plants

• producer

• consumer

• scavenger

• decomposer

Something that is passed down from its parents; something you are born with

• symbiotic

• learned behavior

• inherited traits

• adaptation

a living thing

• organism

• abiotic

• ecosystem

• interdependent

a part of the ecosystem, such as a plant or animal, with basic needs that must be met

• learned behavior

• adaptation

• abiotic

• biotic

How living and nonliving things depend on one another

• adaptation

• organism

• interdependent

• decomposer

a community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment

• inherited trait

• ecosystem

• symbiotic

• adaptation

a part of the ecosystem that is not living, such as sunlight, air (including oxygen and carbon dioxide), water, rocks and soil

• biotic

• abiotc

• ecosystem

• organism