Ecosystems Vocabulary

A diagram showing the interaction of several organisms within an ecosystem.

• Food Web

• Food Chain

Plant Eaters

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

A living thing that makes its own food

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• herbivore

The Home of an animal or plant.

• habitat

• ecosystem

• personal space

• outside

Meat Eaters

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

The amount of energy in each level of an ecosystem

• food web

• habitat

• energy pyramid

• food pyramid

Organisms that can make their own food.

• Autotroph

• Photosynthesis

• Predator

• Heterotroph

A community of organisms in an area that live and interact with one another. Organisms interact with all biotic and abiotic factors here.

• Carrying Capacity

• Energy Pyramid

• Coexistence

• Ecosystem

The process by which plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce food energy

• water cycle

• life cycle

• photosynthesis

• adaptation

A living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

• organism