organism. an individual animal, plant, or single- celled life form
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Organism
An individual animal, plant, or
single-celled life form.
Producer (Autotroph)
Makes it own food through sunlight
They make their own food
Consumer
(Heterotroph)
Eats other organisms for food
Herbivore
Consumer that eats
plants only
Carnivore
Consumer that eats other animals
Omnivore
Consumer that eats both animals and
plants
Scavenger
Consumers that eat the
bodies of already
dead animals
Decomposer
Living thing that breaks down dead organisms
(Recyclers )
Food Chain
• A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food.
• Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.
Food Web
A graphic (picture) that shows the organisms that eat and get eaten in
an environment.
Energy Pyramid
Habitat
The environment where something lives.
Niche
An organisms way of life in an ecosystem; including habitat,
food, predators and competition
Limiting Factors
Anything that keeps a population from growing to large
Examples: food, water, living space
Carrying Capacity
The largest population that a given environment can
support over a long period of time
