Amia Lee

5. organisms that consume other organisms for energy
6. a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition. It describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors and how it in turn alters those same factors.
9. the order of events in an ecosystem, where one living organism eats another organism, and later that organism is consumed by another larger organism
10. Decomposers are organisms that break down dead organisms and release the nutrients from the dead matter into the environment around them.
11. a living organism that shapes its environment
14. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
15. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy

1. can be used to study bottom-up or top-down control of community structure.
2. an organism that regularly consumes a variety of material, including plants, animals, algae, and fungi
3. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
4. an animal that feeds on the remains of other animals or eats decomposing plant or animal matter.
7. an organism that makes its own food
8. an animal that mainly eats plants.
12. an organism, in most cases an animal, that eats meat.
13. the natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism