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Organisms/Environmen

Organisms and Environment Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Carnivore An animal that eats other animals.
Community A group of organisms that live in the same area and and interact with each other.
Energy Power gained from food that organisms eat.
Ecosystem All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment
Environment All the living and nonliving elements that surround and affect an organism
Flow of energy The amount of energy that moves through a food chain from organism to organism.
Food Chain The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem
Food Web Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy
Herbivore An animal that eats only plants (producers)
Interacting To work together
Living/Biotic The condition of being alive, that includes growth and reproduction
Nonliving/Abiotic Anything that was never alive like water, air, or sunlight
Omnivore An animal that eats both plants and animals
Organism A living thing
Habitat The place where an organism lives
Niche An organism's role (job) or function in an ecosystem
Population All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem
Predator An animal that naturally preys on others
Prey An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food
Producer An organism that makes its own food (like plants)
Survival Continuing to live or exist
Photosynthesis The process by which plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make their own food (chlorophyll)
Consumer An organism that cannot make its own food and has to eat producers (plants) or other consumers
Decomposer An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms
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