Ecology

5. large geographical community that has a particular type of climate
6. can make their own food
7. replacement of populations in habitat as it moves toward a stable state
8. physical factors
9. all the interacting populations in a given area
10. can maintain itself by independent effort
11. consumer both plants and meat
13. cannot make their own food; must eat
15. the organism's role in the community
18. meat eating animal
21. capacity maximum number of organisms the resources of an area can support
22. living factors
23. plant eating animals

1. place where a plant or animal can get food, water, shelter and space it needs to live
2. animals which kill and consume their prey
3. growth of cities has destroyed land and wetlands ruining natural habitats
4. all the members of a species inhabiting a given location
5. differences in living things in an ecosystem
9. feeds on something
12. live on dead matter
14. convert radiant energy of the sun into chemical energy of food
16. the study of interactions of living things with each other and their physical environment
17. animals that feed on other animals that they have not killed
19. living community and physical environment functioning together as an independent and relatively stable system
20. portion of the earth where life exists