adaptation - a change in an organism to better fit an ecosystem biome - a vary large area of the world that has unique weather and plants carnivore - an animal that eats other animals climate - the weather that an area has had over a long period of time consumers - eat other living things decomposers - break down dead plants and animals ecosystem - all the living and nonliving things in an area ecotones - blending or transition zone of two biomes environment - everything that surrounds a living thing food chain - shows a direct link between an animal and the thing it eats and is eaten by food web - a complex arrangement of food chains habitat - the place in an ecosystem in which an organism lives nutrient - a substance in food or soil that plants and animals need to survive organism - any living thing population - a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time predators - animals that hunt and eat other animals prey - animals that are hunted and eaten producer - an organism that makes its own food species - the lowest level of a classification system temperate - a type of climate that is not too hot or too cold |