Ecosystems Vocabulary 1

Biodiversity (n)

• Different kinds of life in an ecosystem or on Earth.
• Number of people living in an area.
• Different kinds of rocks in an area.

Biome (n)

• A big area with a certain climate and specific plants and animals.
• A small living area inside a bigger one.
• Animals that all belong to the same group.

Carnivore (n)

• An animal that eats only meat.
• An animal that eats only plants.
• An animal that eats both plants and animals.

Community (n)

• Different groups of living things in the same place that interact with each other.
• People living in the same area.
• Animals that all belong to the same group.

Conservation (n)

• Keeping nature safe and using resources carefully.
• Wasting resources.
• Building roads and buildings in nature.

Consumers (n)

• Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms.
• Organisms that create their own food using sunlight.
• Organisms that eat only plants.

Ecosystem (n)

• A place where living things (plants, animals) and non-living things (air, water) interact.
• Animals that all belong to the same group.
• A place where scientists study animals.

Endemic (adj)

• Found only in a certain area.
• An animal found all over the world.
• An animal found only in zoos.

Food chain (n)

• A series of organisms that pass energy by eating and being eaten.
• How plants make their own food.
• Companies that make and sell food.

Food web (n)

• A connected network of food chains in an ecosystem.
• How food is broken down by an organism.
• A spider's web that catches insects to eat.