Ecology Vocab

4. the position of an organism in the food chain
5. natural enviornment
6. region of the earth that encompasses all living organisms
9. living thing
16. number of people or inhabitants in a given area or region
17. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
18. a community of organisms and their physical environment interacting together
20. meat eater
23. an organism often bacteria
24. a hunted organism that is killed
25. organism that helps another organism by providing nourishment and shelter

1. living organisms within an ecosystem
2. organism hunting prey
3. population of living organisms in a specific area that interacts
7. an organism that can't produce its own food
8. plant and meat eater
10. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material
11. non meat eater (plant eater)
12. the study of interactions between an organism and its environment
13. animal or plant that gets nutrients by living on or in an organism of another species
14. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
15. an organism that makes its own food
19. an organism that eats the prey
21. organism that can produce its own food
22. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem