Ecosystem Vocabulary

Everything in a desert environment, including the sand, rocks, cacti, and reptiles, is called an

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Organism

• Ecosystem

Something that must eat other animals or plants for energy.

• Food web

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Producer

The study of the relationship between living organisms and their physical environment is

• Energy

• Food chain

• Tertiary Consumer

• Ecology

_______ is a community of living things, together with their environment.

• Characteristics

• Ecosystem

• Survive

• Adaptation

Match the terms with their definition:

• An organisms functional role.

• Niche

• All of the organisms in an ecosystems.

• Community

• All the organisms of one species in an ecosystem.

• Population

• Where an organism lives.

• Habitat

An _______ means all the living and nonliving things in the same area.

_______ is the process of something becoming worse or weaker.

• restoration

• degradation

• sustainable

A_____ is an area of very wet, muddy land with wild plants growing in it.

The variety of different plants and animals live in a given area is called ______

Ecosystem________ means recovery(恢复)of ecosystems that have been degraded, as well as protecting the ecosystems that are still intact. 

• restoration

• degradation

• planning