Chapter 5 vocab
Across
- 3. a group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a particular place
- 8. species: a species that is moved from its home by human and put somewhere
- 9. species:an organism that has been introduced to area which is not native
- 10. an animal that is able to produce its own food
- 12. an animal that eats dead plants or animal
- 13. an organisms that lives on or in another organism
- 14. a group of individuals of the same species occupying a specific area
- 16. the natural environment in which an organism normally lives, including the surrounding
- 17. consumers: an animal that eats plants
- 18. pyramid: a graphic representation that shows the relationship between energy
- 19. the function, position, or role of a species within an ecosystem
Down
- 1. organism that feeds on other organisms in a food chain
- 2. web: many interconnected food chains within an ecological community
- 4. levels: a group of organisms occupy the same position on the food chain
- 5. an animal that eats meat
- 6. selection: the natural process in which those organisms best adapted live
- 7. organism that feeds on dead plants or animals
- 11. capacity: an ecosystem's resource limit;the maximum number of individuals in a population
- 15. an animal that eats both plants and animals