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| When one/all of your five senses are used to describe something |
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| When a measurement or number is used to describe something |
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| Something that is living, used to be living, or was produced by something living |
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| Nonliving part of an ecosystem |
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Any living thing
ex: animal, plant, fungus, bacteria |
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A single organism
ex: Mr. Bennett, Simba from the Lion King |
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Multiple individuals of the same species (type) in the same place
ex: sparrows, alligators |
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| All of the populations in a certain place |
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| A system of interacting organisms and abiotic factors in a certain place |
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| The place that supplies all of an organism's needs |
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| Everything (biotic and abiotic) around an organism that affects it |
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| A type of biotic interaction when one thing eats another |
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| All of the feeding relationships in an ecosystem |
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| An organism that gets its energy from another organism |
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| An organism that gets its energy from a dead organism |
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| First-level consumer (primary consumer) |
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| An consumer that eats only producers, also called an herbivore |
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| Second-level consumer (secondary consumer) |
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| A consumer that eats first-level consumer |
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| Third-level consumer (tertiary consumer) |
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| A consumer that eats second-level consumers |
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| When the sun's energy, combined with water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2), allow food (sugar) to be produced. |
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| An organism that can make its own energy through photosynthesis. |
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| An animal that only eats plants |
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| An animal that eats other animals (does not eat producers) |
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| An animal that eats both plants and animals; an animal that eats both producers and consumers |
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| The position an organism has on a food chain (is it a producer, 1st level consumer, 2nd level consumer, etc) |
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