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A carnivore, meaning "meat eater", is an animal whose food and energy requirements derive solely from animal products whether through hunting or scavenging.

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An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet

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Quaternary consumers are often top predators within the environment, and they eat the tertiary consumers.

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Tertiary consumers are carnivores that eat other carnivores. Higher-level consumers feed on the next lower tropic levels, and so on, up to the organisms at the top of the food chain: the apex consumers

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Secondary consumers are largely comprised of carnivores that feed on the primary consumers or herbivores.

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The amount of energy at each trophic level decreases as it moves through an ecosystem. As little as 10 percent of the energy at any trophic level is transferred to the next level; the rest is lost largely through metabolic processes as heat.

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A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at an apex predator species, detritivores, or decomposer species.

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A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community

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the synthesis of organic compounds by bacteria or other living organisms using energy derived from reactions involving inorganic chemicals, typically in the absence of sunlight.

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the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.

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a term used to describe organisms that predators kill for food

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an animal that lives by killing and eating other animals

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symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.

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the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.

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an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.

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a device or installation that is used to break down a chemical substance.

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1. an animal which feeds on dead organic material, especially plant detritus.

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an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.

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an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals

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a mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups.

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A limiting factor is anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.

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a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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a place where an organism makes its home. A habitat meets all the environmental conditions an organism needs to survive

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the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems

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a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

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a community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time

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a distinct group of individuals

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an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.

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relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.

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physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms

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the concentration of individuals within a species in a specific geographic locale

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the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.

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population increase that happens in a manner that starts slowly, as there are few individuals, then increases in speed as numbers increase, but then decreases to a halt as numbers get high enough that resources are depleted and cannot support further growth

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a process that increases quantity over time.

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energy is passed in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, only ten percent of the energy will be passed on