producers - Organisms that make their own food, consumers - Organisms that cannot make their own food., detritivores - Organisms that consume the dead bodies and wastes that are produced by living things., herbivores - Organisms that eat producers., carnivores - Organisms that eat herbivores, omnivores, and even other carnivores., omnivores - Organisms that eat both producers and consumers., scavenger - A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead or decaying organisms., food chain - A simple model (beginning with a producer) that shows one path of food energy in a community or ecosystem., food web - A model for energy transfer that shows how many different food chains are interconnected., energy pyramid - A model that shows how much energy is available at each link of a food chain (or trophic level in an ecosystem)., predator - An organism that hunts other organisms for food, prey - An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism, population - all of the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time., community - all of the populations that live in an ecosystem at the same time., biotic - living or once living environmental factors (plants, animals, decaying organisms, parts of the soil)., abiotic - non-living or never living environmental factors (air, water, parts of the soil)., habitat - the place within an ecosystem that provides the all the biotic & abiotic factors that an organism needs., niche - the way a species interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors to obtain food, find shelter, and fulfil other needs. It is an organism's role in the environment.,

Basic Ecology Vocabulary 1

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