Ecosystem Vocabulary Words

Organism that gets energy from dead or decaying organisms

the place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows

characteristic

the role of an organism in a community

a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing offspring

an animal that eats plants and other producers

the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

an organism that can make its own food

the members of one species in an area

the path of energy in food from one organism to another

the passing of traits from parents to offspring

organism that gets energy from eating plants and animals

the stages of an organism's life of birth, maturation, reproduction and death

interaction of all living and non-living things in an environment

An animal that eats other animals

a living thing

the food-making process in green plants that use sunlight