Energy in Ecosystems

2. The living things in an ecosystem
4. The nonliving things in an ecosystem
5. An organism that produces their own food
8. An organism that does not make their own food
10. An organism that consumes both plants and meat
11. An organism that only consumes plants
13. The buildup of chemicals in organism through time
14. A trophic cascade where the predator population controls the population of the lower levels
15. How energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem, who eats who
17. An organism that only consumes meat
18. Used by all organisms to carry out functions
19. A trophic cascade where the population of producers impacts the population of the top predator

1. All of the overlapping and interacting food chains in an ecosystem
3. A living thing
6. Converting carbon dioxide, water, and energy from the sun into glucose (energy)
7. Interactions between species that are caused by the addition or removal of an organism
9. An organism that consumes decaying organic matter
12. The buildup of chemicals up the trophic levels, very dangerous to top consumers
13. The mass of living organisms in an ecosystem over time
16. All of the living and nonliving components of an area and their interactions