bio unit 8 vocab

3. An organism that cannot make its own food.
4. A consumer that eats only plants.
7. A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
8. A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
10. A consumer that eats only animals.
11. A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
12. Place where an organism lives
14. An organism that makes its own food
15. A relationship between two species in which both species benefit
16. part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
17. diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter within each trophic level in a food chain or food web
19. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

1. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
2. organism that feeds on plant and animal remains and other dead matter
5. All the living organisms that inhabit an environment
6. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
9. total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
10. All the different populations that live together in an area
13. Nonliving components of environment.
18. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms