Ecosystems Vocab Science Quiz

A single organism in an environment

• Individual

• Population

• Habitat

• Consumers

All the individuals of the same kind living in the same environment

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Habitat

All populations of different organisms living in the same environment

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

• Consumers

• Community

A community and its physical environment together (community + physical environment)

A place within an ecosystem where a population lives

The population's role within the habitat

An organism that makes its own food through a process within itself-usually using photosynthesis

• Producers

• Consumers

• Individual

• Decomposer

An organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs (it is unable to produce food within itself)

A consumer that breaks down the tissue of deaad organisms.

Non living things that are a part of the physical environment of an ecosystem: