abiotic
biotic
carnivore
not biotic, nonliving
Living or onceliving organisms
any of an order of
typically flesh
eating mammals
“Non-living”
“I’m alive!”
“Mmm…meat!”
consumer
controlled
decomposers
experiment
an organism that
obtain its energy
from other
organisms
a scientific investigation
in which one variable is
changed and all the
others are kept the
same, or constant
organisms that
consume the remains
of dead organisms,
breaking it down for
living organisms
“Energy from eating”
“Only change 1 thing”
“Breaking down dead
organisms”
ecosystem
effect
endangered
biotic and abiotic
factors working
together in an
environment
result or
consequence
To bring into
danger or peril
“Working together”
“Oh no!”
“Danger!”
food chain
food web
herbivore
the linear sequential
order that animals
feed on other plants
and animals
the complex set of
food chain eating
relationships among
species within an
ecosystem
an organism that
feeds on vegetable
substances
“Grass, mouse, hawk”
“Connected”
“Mmm…veggies!”
interdependency
model
omnivore
organisms are
mutually
dependent upon
each other
a simplified
representation of
a system
an organism that
feeds on both
vegetable and
animal substances
“I need you & you need me.”
“A small representation”
“I’ll eat anything”
organism
photosynthesis
pollutant
a living thing such process by which plants
use light energy to
as an animal, plant, convert
carbon dioxide
fungus and
and water into glucose
(food)
microorganisms
a substance or
condition that
contaminates air,
water, and soil
“All living things!”
“Energy from light”
“Icky substance”
predator
prey
producer
one that preys,
destroys or
devours
an animal taken
by a predator as
food
an organism that
obtain its energy
from the sun
“I’m going to eat you!”
“Ah, don’t eat me!”
“Energy from the sun”
stability
subsystem
system
the ability of an
ecosystem to
resist change
a self-contained
system within a
larger system
a number of objects
or units that move
or work together as
a whole
“Balanced”
“Small system”
“Together we are a whole”