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4th grade chapter 4
Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| producer | living thing that eats its own food |
| ecosystem | all of the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact |
| consumer | living things that eat other living things |
| habitat | area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem |
| herbivore | animal that eats plants |
| population | all of the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem |
| fossil | remains or mark of animal that lived long ago |
| food chain | the transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten |
| carnivore | animal that gets food by eating other animals |
| extinct | no longer existing as a species |
| food web | system of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions |
| onmivore | animals that eat plants and other animals |
| paleontologist | a scientist who studies fossils |
| competition | occurs when 2 or more organisms need the same resources in order to survive |
| decomposer | organism that breaks down plant and animal remains |