vocab

1. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
3. all living organisms within an ecosystem, including plants, animals, and microorganisms.
5. an animal that feeds on other animals.
6. an organism that makes its own food
9. an animal that feeds on plants.
11. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
12. the non-living physical and chemical components of the environment that influence the growth of organisms
14. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
15. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.

2. the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity
4. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
6. animals that eat plants
7. a group of individuals of the same species
8. describe who eats whom in an ecosystem and therefore how energy flows through an ecosystem
10. ecological systems.
13. the activity or condition of competing.
16. he maximum number of a species an environment can support indefinitely.