Ecology Vocabulary

3. a community of organisms interacting with their environment
5. living things such as plants, animals, and bacteria
7. an animal that eats living things such as plants and animals
9. shows the relationships among different food chains. For example, rabbits and deer may both consume the same carrots.
12. consumers that obtain energy by breaking down the remains of dead plants and animals.
15. non-living (things that have never been living) such as rain, sunlight, temperature, and minerals in the soil
17. An animal that eats other animals and not plants
20. all the organisms of one kind in an ecosystem
22. an animal that eats other animals.
23. any living thing (plants or animals)
24. An animal that eats meat and plants. Omni - means "all"
25. the role an organism plays in its environment, including how it interacts with other species and the resources it needs
27. a living thing that makes its own food; a plant

1. an organism that consumes other organisms in a food chain.
2. a simple sugar molecule produced by plants during photosynthesis
4. a group of populations that live together
6. An animal that eats only plants.
8. a relationship between different kinds of organisms
10. a type of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is hurt
11. an organism that can make its own food using chemicals, water, carbon dioxide, or light.
13. shows that each level of a food chain passes on less food energy than the level before it. (Only 10% of the energy is passed on to the consumer)
14. a type of symbiosis in which both animals are helped
16. an area where an organism can find everything it needs to survive
18. the biological process where plants, algae, and certain bacteria use sunlight energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose (sugar) and oxygen
19. animals that are eaten
21. the transfer of energy between organisms
26. a type of symbiosis in which one animal benefits and the other animal isn't hurt or helped