1. Ecosystems

2. All the living and nonliving things that surround a living thing

3. environment People, other animals, plants, water, air, soil,weather

4. All the living and nonliving things in an area form this

5. ecosystem

6. A group made of the same kinds of individuals

7. population One plant or animal

8. All the populations that live in the same place and have at least one thing in common

9. community Forest Coastal swamp

10. Most living things on Earth get the energy to live from this

11. sunlight

12. Any living thing that can make its own food

13. producer Green plants Algae

14. An animal that eats other plants and animals

15. consumer

16. An animal that eats only plants

17. herbivore

18. An animal that eats only other animals

19. carnivore

20. An animal that eats both plants and other animals

21. omnivore

22. A living thing that feeds on wastes and on the remains of dead plants and animals

23. decomposer

24. Living thing that absorbs nutrients from living plants and dead plant materials

25. Fungi (FUN – jy)

26. These tiny decomposers can only be seen with a microscope

27. bacteria

28. What would happen if there were no decomposers on the earth?

29. Earth would be covered with dead plants and animals.

30. An environment that meets the needs of a living thing

31. habitat

32. How a living thing interacts with its habitat

33. Niche (NICH) How it gets food, shelter, reproduces, cares for young, and avoids danger

34. The movement of food energy in a sequence of living things

35. Food chain Every food chain begins with a producer.

36. Consumers that are eaten

37. prey They are hunted.

38. Consumers that eat prey

39. predators They are the hunters

40. What would happen if there were no predators?

41. There would be an imbalance Some animals would starve and become extinct.

42. Several food webs that overlap form this

43. Food web One kind of producer may be food for several kinds of consumers

44. Shows how each level of a food chain passes on less food energy than the level before it

45. Energy pyramid

46. What would happen if a large number of organisms in the base level of the pyramid change or are killed by drought?

47. The whole food chain is affected. If the first level is affected, many in the higher levels will starve.

48. The living parts of an ecosystem

49. biotic Plants and animals

50. The nonliving parts of an ecosystem

51. abiotic Sunlight, water, air, soil

52. The amount of rainfall and sunlight in a region, and the repeating patterns of temperature

53. climate Abiotic factor