Ecology Vocab

2. An animal that lives by killing and eating other animals
4. Organism that eats meat
6. Organisms creating their own food using light, water, carbon dioxide or other chemicals (another word for producer)
9. Consists of all the food chains in an ecosystem
10. An animal that feeds on decaying organic matter
12. A natural home or environment of an organism
13. An animal that is hunted or killed by another for food
14. Living things within an ecosystem
16. The study of how organisms interact
18. Organisms that cant produce their own food, eat other plants and/or animals
20. A community or group of organisms that live and interact with eachother
22. Another word for a living thing
23. An organism in which a parasite lives

1. Organisms that eat other plants or animals for energy and nutrients (another word for consumer)
3. Organisms that break down dead organic matter
5. Relating to or having parasite like habits
7. Organism that eats plants and animals
8. Number or inhabitants in a country or region
11. Non-living part of an ecosystem
13. Organism that make their own food
15. The position of an organism in a food chain
17. A group of organisms that share a common characteristic
19. Organism that eats plants
21. The sequence of organisms nutrients and energy passing as they eat one another