4th Grade Ecosystems
Vocabulary
Mrs. Thornburg’s version
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Vocabulary in
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Ecosystems
Population
Ecosystem
Habitat
Food Chain
Predator
Niche
Prey
Food Web
Environment
Community
Decomposer
Energy Pyramid
Producer
Consumer
What do we call an environment that meets
the needs of an organism?
Habitat
What do we call a series of organisms in its
habitat?
Food chain
What do we call a diagram showing how much
energy is passed on from one organism to the next
in a food chain?
Energy Pyramid
What do we call a consumer that eats prey?
Predator
What do we call consumers that are eaten
by predators?
Prey
What do we call a living thing that feeds on wastes
and on the remains of dead plants and animals?
Decomposer
What do we call a group of food chains that
overlap?
Food web
What do we call the role of an organism in
an ecosystem?
Niche
What do we call the living and nonliving
things in an area?
Ecosystem
What do we call a living thing, such as a
plant, that can make its own food?
Producer
What do we call a living thing that can’t make its
own food and must eat other living things?
Consumer
What do we call a group made up of the same kind
of individuals living in the same ecosystem?
Population
What do we call all the different populations
that live in the same place?
Community
What do we call all living and nonliving
things that surround you?
Environment