How Organisms Interact

1. A food ____ is the path of the transfer of food energy from one living thing to another.
3. The animal that is hunted or eaten by other animals.
6. Animals that only eat plants.
8. An animal that hunts another animal for food.
9. A living thing that eats other living things as food.
12. Living parts of an ecosystem.
13. A living thing that feeds on and breaks down dead things or wastes for food.
14. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
15. A living thing that makes its own food.

1. An animal that eats other animals.
2. The role of an organism within their ecosystem.
4. A ___________ of numbers show the number of organisms at each level of a food chain.
5. Non-living parts of an ecosystem.
7. A food ____ groups all of the different food chains and how they interact in an ecosystem.
8. The first consumer on a food chain is known as the _________ consumer
10. The organism at the end of the food chain is known as the _____ consumer
11. Animals that eat dead or rotting animal flesh.
12. The total mass of all the organisms in an ecosystem