-Ecosystem: a community of living and nonliving things working together
-Habitat: the natural environment of where an animal or a plant lives
-Biotic: anything living (ex: plants, animals)
-Abiotic: things that are nonliving. (ex: temperature, water, or light)
-Climate: the typical pattern of weather in an area
-Temperatue: the hotness or coldness of an environment
-Precipitation: The liquid and solid water particles that fall from clouds, such as rain, snow, hail, sleet.
-Control: Something that doesn’t change in a scientific experiment
-Independent Variable: The thing you can control or change in an experiment (ex: you can change how much light a plant receives)
-Dependent Variable: Responds to the independent variable. It depends on the independent variable. You cannot have a dependent variable without an independent variable!
Unit 3 Part B Vocabulary
consumer-a living thing that must eat other living things for food and energy
decomposer- a living thing that breaks down dead plant and animal material in order to get food energy
food chain-a model that shows how energy flows between living things
food web-two or more food chains that connect when a member of one food chain eats a member of another food chain
omnivore-an animal that eats both plants and animals
predator-an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
prey-an animal that is eaten by predators
primary consumer-an animal that eats primary producers (herbivore)
producers-a green plant, which is the food maker in a food chain
scavenger-an animal that eats dead animal flesh
secondary consumer-an animal that eats primary consumers (carnivore or omnivore)