Science Vocabulary

5. a living organism that shapes its environment.
11. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
12. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
13. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
14. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.
16. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

1. a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem
2. the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
3. supports ecological, human, and economic health and vitality.
4. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.
6. an animal that only consumes other animals
7. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
8. an organism that creates its own food or energy.
9. an animal that only consumes plants
10. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
15. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.