LE Ecology Vocabulary EC

4. The place where an organism lives.
10. The variety of species in an area.
11. An organism that obtains its energy from producers.
15. An organism that survives by living and feeding on other organisms.
17. An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.
18. The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.
19. The process by which an existing community is replaced by another community in an ecosystem.
20. An animal that is hunted and killed by predators.
21. Limited; able to be used up; opposite of infinite
22. All of Earth's ecosystems, collectively; the biologically inhabited portions of Earth, including all of the water, land, and air in which organisms survive.
25. The organism in a parasitic relationship that provides a home and/or food for the parasite.
26. A representation that identifies the specific feeding relationships among organisms.
28. Every living and non-living thing that surrounds an organism.
29. An organism that eats only plants.
31. The living parts of the environment.
32. All the living and non-living things that interact in a specific area; a subdivision of the environmentabiotic Non-living parts of the environment.

1. All the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area
2. An organism that produces its own food; the source of energy for all other living things on Earth.
3. The largest population of any single species that an area can support.
5. The struggle between organisms for the same limited resources in a particular area.
6. The specific role played by an organism in its ecosystem
7. An organism, generally bacteria or fungi, that consumes dead organisms and organic waste.
8. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
9. A diagram showing how food energy moves through the ecosystem.
12. An organism that makes its own food from light energy and inorganic materials.
13. Organism that cannot make its own food; a consumer
14. An organism that survives by eating animals
16. Non-living parts of the environment
23. Large groups of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms; examples include the tundra, taiga, temperate forest, chaparral, tropical rainforest, desert, temperate grassland, tropical and savanna grasslands.
24. Any factor in the environment that limits the size of a population.
27. A combination of all the different populations that live and interact in the same environment
30. A representation of many interconnected food chains that shows the feeding relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers.