Ecosystem vocabulary!
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1. organism - any living thing (this includes all plants AND animals)
2. ecosystem - all living and nonliving things in an environment
3. photosynthesis - the process that occurs when plants use chlorophyll and sunlight to change water and carbon dioxide
into sugar and oxygen
4. producers - organisms that produce their own food (plants and bacteria)
5. consumers - organisms that do NOT make their own food. There are 4 types: herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers
6. herbivore - a plant-eating animal
7. carnivore - a meat-eating animal
8. omnivore - an animal that eats both plants and meat
9. scavenger - an animal that eats dead organisms (vultures, insects, coyotes)
10. decomposer - a living thing that eats dead organisms and their wastes in order to break down the matter into nutrients
11. food chain - a series of "who eats whom" links connecting organisms to one another
12. food web - contains all of the food chains in an ecosystem
13. energy pyramid - a diagram that shows how much energy is passed from each level in a food chain to the next
2. ecosystem - all living and nonliving things in an environment
3. photosynthesis - the process that occurs when plants use chlorophyll and sunlight to change water and carbon dioxide
into sugar and oxygen
4. producers - organisms that produce their own food (plants and bacteria)
5. consumers - organisms that do NOT make their own food. There are 4 types: herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers
6. herbivore - a plant-eating animal
7. carnivore - a meat-eating animal
8. omnivore - an animal that eats both plants and meat
9. scavenger - an animal that eats dead organisms (vultures, insects, coyotes)
10. decomposer - a living thing that eats dead organisms and their wastes in order to break down the matter into nutrients
11. food chain - a series of "who eats whom" links connecting organisms to one another
12. food web - contains all of the food chains in an ecosystem
13. energy pyramid - a diagram that shows how much energy is passed from each level in a food chain to the next