Ecosystems Vocabulary

An organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• carnivore

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A living organism that breaks down dead organisms into smaller parts that can be reused by other living things

• decomposer

• producer

• ectotherm

• community

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The pathway of food energy through an ecosystem;

it is a straight line from the Sun to plants to animals

• biotic

• producer

• food chain

• food web

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A model of the transfer of energy within a set of interconnected food chains

• food chain

• abiotic

• food web

• producer

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The living parts of an ecosystem

• abiotic

• biotic

• endotherm

• ectotherm

This shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

• photosynthesis

• chlorophyll

• energy pyramid

• decomposer

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The nonliving parts of an ecosystem

• endotherm

• ectotherm

• biotic

• abiotic

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An organism eaten by a predator in order for the predator to gain energy.

• consumer

• producer

• prey

• decomposer

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A community of several food chains that intertwine.

• food web

• population

• community

• niche

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What is made up of 3 living features and 1 nonliving feature?

• community

• population

• ecosystem

• niche

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