Organisms and their Environment

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  1. 3. environment The environment compromising living organisms that interact with each other and their abiotic environment.
  2. 6. The study of organisms and their environment
  3. 7. A group of organisms of the same species living in a particular habitat.
  4. 9. An organism that feeds on dead plants and animals, or animal waste
  5. 10. Burning, such as that of fossil fuels
  6. 15. The layer of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body
  7. 16. the complex of physical, chemical and biotic factors that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.
  8. 19. All the organisms that live in the same habitat
  9. 21. An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
  10. 22. The substances of the land surface; soil
  11. 25. An organism that gets its food by eating other organisms; an animal
  12. 27. The total amount of water on a planet
  13. 29. A living biological entity such as an animal, plant, fungus or bacteria. Anything resembling a living creature in structure, behaviour, etc.
  14. 30. A diagram showing the feeding relationships between organisms in the same community
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  1. 1. an animal that eats plants
  2. 2. A group of organisms that share many features and can be interbred to produce fertile offspring.
  3. 4. Fuel formed from organic material, such as peat, coal and oil
  4. 5. The community of organisms and their environment in an area that interacts together.
  5. 8. A diagram that shows the transfer of energy from the organisation by ingestion
  6. 11. an animal that eats an animal
  7. 12. Is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
  8. 13. an animal that eats both plants and animals
  9. 14. The mass of living organisms
  10. 17. An organism that produces its own food; for example, plants using energy transferred from light in photosynthesis to produce glucose
  11. 18. environment An anabiotic factor is a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
  12. 20. levels A feeding level in a food chain or food web, e.g. producer, primary consumer
  13. 23. pyramid Is a graphical representation designed to show the biomass or bio productivity at each trophic level in a given ecosystem.
  14. 24. The destruction of large areas of forests of woodland
  15. 26. An organism that feeds on the nonliving organic matter known as detritus at the microscopic level.
  16. 28. The global ecosystem composed of living organisms and the abiotic factors from which they derive energy and nutrients