Ecosystems

2. Shows how several food chains connect and overlap
5. Eats plants and animals
6. A body part or behavior that helps an organism meet its needs in its environment
8. The movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again
12. A diagram that shows the amount of food energy at each level in the feeding order
13. All the populations that live in the same area
15. Groups of living things and the environment they live in
17. Eats only plants
18. Shows one pathway for food energy from organism to organism
19. Feed on the wastes of plants and animals or on their remains after they die
20. A group of the same species living in the same place at the same time

1. Everything that surrounds and affects an animal, including living and nonliving things
3. Any living thing; plant, animal or fungus
4. Living things that make their own food
7. A period when an animal goes into a long, deep “sleep”
9. Eats only animals
10. Eat other living things for energy
11. An animal’s or color or pattern that helps it blend with its surroundings
14. An organism that preys on and eats animals
16. An organism caught or hunted for food
17. An environment that meets the needs of an organism