Ecosystems Vocabulary

4. an area where temperatures only sometimes become very hot or very cold
6. the variety of life in the world or in a particular place
8. living things in a ecosystem
10. an organism that gets its energy by eating plants, or eating other animals
11. an animal that helps plants make seeds
13. nonliving things in an ecosystem
14. an organism that makes its own food
15. the physical environment a species lives in

1. all the living things in an ecosystem
2. related to water
3. the process of making more of one’s own kind
5. made up of all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
6. an area and its climate and the plants and animals adapted to that climate environment
7. related to land
9. made of the remains of plants and animals
12. all the members of one kind of plant or animal in a community