Ecosystems

4. a living component of an ecosystem
5. multicellular organisms
8. any organism that can't make its own food.
9. a living thing that isn't a plant or human
11. the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.
14. a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.
15. made up of the parts of Earth where life exists

1. a group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area.
2. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
3. is a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
6. the role an organism plays in a community
7. often stored by cells in biomolecules, particularly carbohydrates (sugars) and lipids
10. an interacting group of various species in a common location
12. organism that breaks down dead organic material
13. a large community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in a particular area