Ecosystems Flash Cards

Learn about habitats, food chains, and ecological balance.

Free ecosystems flash cards with 10 terms and definitions. Flip through each card to study, or shuffle for a new order. Printable for classroom or homework use.

Ecosystems Terms and Definitions

HABITAT
The natural home of an organism
PREDATOR
An animal that hunts others for food
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Process where plants make food from sunlight
FOOD CHAIN
The order in which organisms eat one another
DECOMPOSER
Organism that breaks down dead material
HERBIVORE
Animal that eats only plants
CARNIVORE
Animal that eats only other animals
OMNIVORE
Animal that eats both plants and animals
PRODUCER
Organism that makes its own food
ADAPTATION
A trait that helps an organism survive

About Ecosystems

An ecosystem is a community of living and nonliving things that interact in an environment. These flash cards help students learn the vocabulary of ecology, from food chains to the relationships between organisms and their habitats.

Ecosystems Vocabulary

These flash cards pair ecology terms with their definitions. Students flip cards to learn that a HABITAT is where an organism lives, a PREDATOR hunts other animals for food, and PHOTOSYNTHESIS is how plants make food from sunlight.

How to Use These Flash Cards in Class

Use these flash cards during a biology or environmental science unit. After studying, have students build a food web diagram for a local ecosystem. Discuss what happens when one species is removed from the web.

Printable Ecosystems Flash Cards

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