- ABIOTIC: Non-living factors of an organisms' environment.
- BIOMES: Major ecological communities, such as rainforest, Forest, desert, grassland
- BIOTIC: The living organisms in an ecosystem
- CARNIVORE: An organisim that eats other animals
- CONNECTED: Everything is joined or linked together in some way.
- CONSERVATION: The preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
- CONSERVATION: Protecting natural resources and using them wisely
- CONSUMER: Organisms that take in food material and are above producers on the energy pyramid
- DECOMPOSER: Organisms in an ecosystem that break down organic material (dead organisms, their waste, etc.)
- ECO-SYSTEM: All the organisms living in the area, as well as the physical components of the environment of which they interact (air, soil, water, sunlight, etc.).
- ENDANGERED: when there are so few of a species that it is in danger of dying out
- ENVIRONMENT: The air, the water, the soil, and everything else that surrounds a person, animal, or plant.
- FOOD WEB: The interconnected food chains in an ecosystem
- HABITAT: The area where an organism lives, grows, and develops.
- HERBIVORE: Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants.
- NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: All the things in and around a place that were not made (or brought in) by people.
- NONRENEWABLE: A resource that cannot be reused or replaced.
- OMNIVORE: An organism that eats plants and animals.
- PRODUCER: Living things that make their own food from the sun,water, carbon dioxide and other types of energy.
- RELATIONSHIPS: A close connection, association, or interaction between two or more components of the ecosystem
- RENEWABLE: Resource that can regenerate quickly and that is replaceable.
- RESOURCES: Anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants.
- THREATENED: A word used to describe an organism or species that is in danger of becoming extinct.
Ecosystems - Lichtenwald