Ecology

6. The position that an organism occupies in a food chain, food web, or energy pyramid
8. A group of organisms living together in a certain area
10. The place and surroundings where an organism normally lives
12. An organism that eats only plants
13. A characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment
16. The role that an organism plays in its environment
18. Eat the secondary consumers
19. An animal that is hunted, killed and eaten by a predator
20. All the members of one species that live in one area
21. An organism that can make its own food
24. An organism that eats only other consumers
27. Eat the producers, which makes them herbivores in most communities
28. The plant life in an area
29. Eat the primary consumers, which makes them carnivores

1. A consumer that eats both plants and meats
2. The part of the ecosystem that is not alive and has never been alive
3. Many food chains put together to show how energy flows through the ecosystem
4. The part of an ecosystem that is alive
5. A predator at the top of a food chain that is not preyed upon by any other animal
7. The order in which animals feed on plants and other animals
9. Something in an environment that keeps the population of an organism from increasing as much as it could
11. A plant and animal community that covers a large part of the Earth
14. The animal life in an area
15. The study of how living things interact with one another and their environment
17. A graphical model of energy flow in a community.
22. All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions
23. An organism that breaks down dead matter and returns nutrients to the soil
25. An animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals
26. An organism that survives by eating producers or other consumers in its ecosystem