Ecology

2. factor- was living or once living and now dead or made by something that was alive.
5. pyramids- show the amount of energy that moves from one energy level to the next.. Energy is used during the life process.
8. the variety of life on earth.
11. eats plants
12. (by animals) used by food/glucose made by carbon dioxide
13. all of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
15. by plants, used by water, sunlight, carbon dioxide, made by sugar (glucose) and oxygen
17. recycles dead organisms and waste. examples mold, mushrooms, and some bacteria
19. one species benefits, the other is neither helped nor harmes
21. make their own food. examples all plants and certain microorganisms.
22. level consumer- eats plants
23. one living thing.

1. eats meat
3. must eat something for energy. examples all animals.
4. both species benefit from a relationship
6. eats both plants and meat
7. factor- an environmental factor that is not alive, never lived, and was not part of something living. and example of one is water.
9. being dependent on others for some needs, being mutually dependent on each other.
10. all of the different populations living in an area (no abiotic factors)
14. level consumer- eats a herbivore
15. all the members of one species living in an area
16. eats dead animals
18. one species benefits, the other is harmed in some way.
20. a close relationship[ between species that benefits at least one of the species.