Ecosystem

A place with living and nonliving things.

Carbon Dioxide

A gas made of carbon and oxygen atoms that plants need for photosynthesis.

Carnivore

Animals that eat meat. They usually have sharp teeth and powerful jaws.

Herbivores

An animal that eats only plants or plant products.

Nonliving

Something that will not grow, change, or require a food source (sun, water, rocks, air).

Food Chain

The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

Food Web

Several connected food chains in an ecosystem.

Producer

An organism that makes its own food.

Population

All the living things in an ecosystem.

Survive

The ability to remain alive.

Consumer

A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to survive. It cannot make its own food.

Prey

An animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal.

Consumer

A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to survive. It cannot make its own food.

Community

Groups of different populations that live in the same ecosystem.

Interact

To influence each other, to work together

Species

All the members of the same kind of organism on Earth.

Scavengers

An animal that eats other dead animals (it doesn’t kill them, it eats the dead bodies that it finds).

Carnivore

Carnivores are animals that eat meat. They usually have sharp teeth and powerful jaws.

Predator

An organism that hunts, catches and eats other animals.

Organisms

All the living things in an ecosystem.

Decomposer

An animal that breaks down dead organisms.