4th Grade Ecosystems Vocabulary

Mrs. Thornburg’s version

Vocabulary in 4th Grade Ecosystems

Population Food Web

Ecosystem Environment

Habitat Community

Food Chain Decomposer

Predator Energy Pyramid

Niche Producer

Prey Consumer

What do we call an environment that meets the needs of an organism?

Habitat

What do we call a series of organisms in its habitat?

Food chain

What do we call a diagram showing how much energy is passed on from one organism to the next

in a food chain?

Energy Pyramid

What do we call a consumer that eats prey?

Predator

What do we call consumers that are eaten by predators?

Prey

What do we call a living thing that feeds on wastes and on the remains of dead plants and animals?

Decomposer

What do we call a group of food chains that overlap?

Food web

What do we call the role of an organism in an ecosystem?

Niche

What do we call the living and nonliving things in an area?

Ecosystem

What do we call a living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food?

Producer

What do we call a living thing that can’t make its own food and must eat other living things?

Consumer

What do we call a group made up of the same kind of individuals living in the same ecosystem?

Population

What do we call all the different populations that live in the same place?

Community

What do we call all living and nonliving things that surround you?

Environment