Ecosystem Review

2. needed for all living things to get energy
5. a carbohydrate that living things break down to get energy
6. process of obtaining the energy living things to grow
7. a community of living and nonliving things that work together
10. an organism that breaks down dead plant and animal matter and returns the nutrients into the soil
11. causes leaves to be green
13. a living thing that makes it own food
15. the continuing chemical reactions in living things that release and use energy
16. the ability to monitor an environment
17. an animal that eats organisms that have already died

1. the process used by producers to make glucose and oxygen from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
3. all living and once alive things
4. a form of sugar made by plants through the process of photosynthesis
8. all living things are made of
9. a chemical process done in all living things
12. a single living thing
14. an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
18. refers to things that have never been alive