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Vocabulary 3.5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
| consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| producer | An organism that uses energy from the sun to create its own food (green plants). |
| decomposer | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms and returns their nutrients to the soil. |
| predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food. |
| prey | An animal that is killed and eaten by another animal. |
| population | A group of the same type of species/organism living in a particular area. |
| community | All the different populations that live together in an area. |
| habitat | A physical/natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. |
| food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
| food web | A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains. |
| herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants. |
| carnivore | A consumer that eats only animals. |
| omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals. |
| organisms | Living things |
| competition | The fight for resources |
| terrestrial | Land |
| aquatic | Water |
| over population | When the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life |
| photosynthesis | The process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy. |