Ecosystem Vocabulary Flashcards
An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants and animals
Producer
An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food.
Consumer
An animal that hunts and eats another animal.
Predator
An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
Prey
A group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can mate with each other to produce offspring.
Species
The group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.
Population
A group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment.
Community
The variety of species that exist in an environment.
Biodiversity
The part of Earth which life can exist.
Biosphere
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.
Food Chain
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things.
Food web
The location in which an organism lives.
Habitat
A major ecological community such as grasslands, tropical rain forest, or desert.
Biome
All the living an non-living things in an area that interact with each other.
Ecosystem
The place or role that an organism has in its habitat.
Niche
