Ecosystem vocab!

1. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
3. A consumer that eats only plants.
5. herbivores (eat producers)
6. An animal that eats both plants and animals
9. Gas animals need to breathe (producers release this)
11. (sugar) Sugar producers eat for energy. Created during photosynthesis.
13. It is an important chemical element that makes up like every living thing
15. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. (living and nonliving things working together)
19. carnivores that eat herbivores
20. A consumer that eats only animals.
21. eat secondary consumers
22. is the ability to do work (living things eat to get energy)

2. (C02) Gas plants need to do photosynthesis. Animals breathe this out.
4. (living) all the living things in an ecosystem, such as animals, plants, and microorganisms
7. (non-living) all the non-living parts of an ecosystem, such as rocks, temperature, sunlight, soil
8. inputs carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight
10. A consumer that eats only plants.
12. outputs glucose (sugar) and oxygen
14. top of the food chain
16. An organism obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms or their remains.
17. Organisms that make their own food (plants, grass, trees)
18. Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy. The process by which plants get food.