● Community – populations that live in the same place at the same time

● Consumer – an organism that eats other organisms (plants and / or animals)

for food
● Decomposer – an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and
waste
● Ecosystem – the living and nonliving components of an environment
● Food chain – representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through
producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem
● Perish – to die
● Population – all of the organisms of the same species that live in the same
place at the same time
● Predator – an animal that naturally preys on others
● Prey – an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food
● Producer – an organism that makes its own food (e.g., plants)