Ecology Vocab

2. The position of an organism in the food chain
5. An organism capable of making its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
7. Interacting group of various species in a common location
8. An organism that kills and eats other organisms for food
9. A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
12. The part of Earth where living things exist
14. Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other
15. A community of organisms and their physical environment interacting together
17. The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism
19. The living components that shape the environment
21. organism that are killed and eaten by other organism
23. Organism that breaks down dead organic material
24. An organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material

1. An organism that eats plants and animals
3. Organism that make their own food
4. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy
6. A group of individuals in the same species living in a particular area
10. A single living species, which exhibits all the properties of life
11. A larger organism that harbors a smaller organism
13. The study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them
16. An organism that cannot make its own
17. An organism that mostly feeds on plants
18. Factors A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
20. An organism that mostly eats meat
22. All of the food chains in an ecosystem