Ecosystem Vocabulary

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A community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.

A place where an organism lives

The role an organism plays in its environment

Any living or dead organism; made of cells

a heterotroph that eats only plants

a heterotroph that eats plants, animals, insects, fungi

Nonliving items that never were living and are not made of cells

a heterotroph that breaks down dead organisms to get its energy

a heterotroph that eats only meat (animals, insects)

a word that means the same thing as organic

a word that means the same thing as autotroph

a heterotroph that hunts/eats other heterotrophs

a heterotroph that is hunted/eaten by a predator

a heterotroph that is hunted/eaten by a predator

a word that means the same thing as heterotroph

an organism that can produce its own food by photosynthesis

an organism that must consume other organisms to get energy

a single pathway of energy from autotroph to heterotrophs

the flow of energy within an ecosystem of many different organisms

What is the best description of what the arrow in a food chain represents?

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