Part 4: Life Science Flashcards
Ecosystem
All living and nonliving things in an environment.
Habitat
The environment where an organism lives.
Organisms
Living Things
Species
A group of organisms with the same DNA
Population
All of the organisms of the same species in the same area
Food Chain
The path of food energy from one organism to another
Food Web
Overlapping food chains
Producer
An organism that can make its own food.
Consumer
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
Herbivore
A consumer that eats only plants
Omnivore
A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Carnivore
A consumer that eats other animals.
Scavenger
A consumer that eats meat from animals that died
Life Cycle
The series of changes in living things
Decomposer
A consumer that eats dead material and waste.