Science Vocabulary

3. The interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem
5. An organism that grows and feeds on another organism
9. A predator in a food chain that no other consumer eats
11. A biological community of organisms together with their environment
12. A member of a group of mostly aquatic invertebrates that includes crabs, lobsters, and shrimp
14. A group of plants and animals that all have a relationship with each other through food
16. An organism in a food chain that eats carnivores
17. species A species that moves into an ecosystem and does harm to the other species living there
18. The process by which plants convert energy from the sun into food
19. An organism off of which a parasite feeds
22. A living thing
23. An animal that is hunted and eaten by a predator

1. An organism in a food chain that is able to make its own food
2. A group of organism that are physically similar and can produce offspring
4. An animal that eats only plants
6. An organism in a food chain that breaks down organic matter
7. A type of animal with a soft body and not backbone such as, an oyster, clam, mussel, snail, slug, or octopus
8. The struggle between organisms for limited resources
10. An organism in a food chain that eats herbivores
13. All the members of one species in a particular area
15. An animal that eats only other animals
18. An animal that hunts and eats other animals to survive
20. An organism in a food chain that eats other organisms, especially live ones
21. An animal that eats both plants and animals