Org. and Environment Review

3. - eat the remains of organisms left behind by other animals
5. - any characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive
6. web - a series of overlapping food chains
7. - the place where an organism lives
8. - organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun
10. - Traits that are passed down from parent to offspring; fill in this blank "instinctive/_______________ behavior
11. chain - traces ONE path of energy as it moves from one organism to the next in an ecosystem
12. - physical adaptation where organism resembles something else or its surroundings
14. - All of the living organisms on Earth interacting together
15. - Greek word meaning "housed"; this is where we get the word ecosystem
16. - feed on the remains or wastes of other organisms and break it down
17. - community of plants, animals, bacteria, organisms interacting with each other and with the nonliving environment

1. - animal trait that develops from being taught or passed down rather than by heredity; fill in the blanks - "_______ behavior"
2. - Greek root word that means "form" or "shape"
4. - a physical adaptation that helps an animal blend in with their surrounding environment
7. - consumers that are plant eaters and feed directly on producers
9. - consumers that are meat-eaters; they eat herbivores or other carnivores
13. - any organism that gets it food from eating another organism