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Organism that feeds on and breaks down dead organisms. |
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Group of living things that are all the same kind. |
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Shows how living things get food and energy. |
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Animal that eats only other animals. |
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Things in food that living things need. |
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Place where an organism lives. |
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Animal that is killed and eaten by another animal. |
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All the interacting living and nonliving things in an area. |
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Green plant that makes food. |
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Every food chain begins with a |
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All the populations of animals that live in an area make up a |
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Camouflage and mimicry are kinds of |
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The study of living and nonliving things and their interactions is |
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A species is endangered when |
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very few of its kind are left. |
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A predator is an animal that |
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hunts and eats other animals. |
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An energy pyramid gets smaller from bottom to top because |
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energy is used up at each level. |
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Decomposers are important to food chains because |
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they put nutrients back into the soil for plants. |
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An animal that gets its energy only from producers is |
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