Term | Definition |
Predator | Any animal that hunts and eats other animals is called a predator. |
Prey | Any animal that is hunted by other animals for food is called prey. |
Producers | Any organism that makes their own food for energy is called a producer. |
Consumers | Organisms that can't make their own food. They get their energy from eating the producers. |
Decomposers | Any organism that gets their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms. |
Herbivores | Herbivores such as a Moose, eats only plants. |
Carnivores | Carnivores eat only other animals. One example is a Lion. |
Omnivores | Omnivores eat both plants and animals. One example is a Black Bear. |
Scavengers | Scavengers feed on other animals that they have not hunted down or killed. Two examples are Hyenas and Vultures. |
Food Chain | A food chain is a series of steps showing how energy moves from one thing to another. |
Food Web | A food web is a diagram that combines many food chains into one picture. |
Symbiosis | A long-term relationship between two different organisms is called symbiosis. |
Parasite | A parasite is an organism that lives on or inside of another organism. |
Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
Habitat | Provides all the things an organism needs to live. |
Biotic Factor | Living organisms. |
Abiotic factor | Nonliving organisms. |
Population | A group of one species living in an area. |
Community | Different populations in an area. |
Niche | The role that an organism has in an ecosystem. |
Carrying Capacity | The number of organisms that can live in a habitat. |