Ecology Intro

3. Each step in the food chain is called
4. consumers that get their energy from breaking down dead/decaying matter
8. process that plants undergo to make their own food
11. groups of individuals
13. consumers that get their energy from both meat and vegetables
14. A single member of a species
15. Energy transfer is represented by ______ going in the direction of the energy’s movement
17. ecosystems on the entire planet

1. organisms that consumes its food (consumer)
2. organisms that make their own food (producers)
5. a community and its surroundings (living and nonliving)
6. a group of ecosystems with the same type of climate
7. grouping of different populations
9. consumers that get their energy from eating meat
10. the study of interactions among organisms and between organisms in their environment
12. links all the food chains in a ecosystem together
16. consumers that get their energy from eating vegetables/grains/fruits