Ecosystem Vocabulary #1
1. Ecosystem – a group of living things and their nonliving environment
2. Biotic – the living parts of the environment
3. Abiotic – the nonliving parts of the environment
4. Estuary – where fresh water and salt water mix
5. Producers – organisms that produce their own food
6. Consumers – an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
7. Herbivore – an organism that eats only plants
8. Carnivore – a consumer that eats only other animals
9. Omnivore – a consumer that eats plants and animals
10. Decomposer – an organism that gets energy by breaking down nutrients in dead organisms
1. Ecosystem – a group of living things and their nonliving environment
2. Biotic – the living parts of the environment
3. Abiotic – the nonliving parts of the environment
4. Estuary – where fresh water and salt water mix
5. Producers – organisms that produce their own food
6. Consumers – an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
7. Herbivore – an organism that eats only plants
8. Carnivore – a consumer that eats only other animals
9. Omnivore – a consumer that eats plants and animals
10. Decomposer – an organism that gets energy by breaking down nutrients in dead organisms