Ecology Vocabulary
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Producer
Organisms
that make
their own food
– usually
plants
Consumer
Organism that eats another organism
– examples include humans, cows,
chicken, tigers, etc.
3 kinds:
-Herbivore
-Carnivore
-omnivore
A consumer
that eats ONLY
plants
Carnivore
A consumer that
eats ONLY meat
or other
consumers
Omnivore
A consumer
that eats
both plants
and animals/
consumers.
Predator
An animal that
eats another
animal for
survival –
example cat,
tiger, lion
Prey
An animal that
is food for
another –
examples are
mouse, deer,
antelope
Decomposer
Organisms that
break down dead
organisms and
return nutrients to
the ground –
examples are
bacteria and fungi
Abiotic
physical and chemical factors of an
ecosystem as light, temperature,
atmosphere gases (nitrogen,
oxygen, carbon dioxide are the
most important), water, wind, soil.
Biotic
All the living features of an
ecosystem.
Autotroph – make their own
food
Heterotrophs – eat other
organisms