bio vocab

5. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
6. the role an organism plays in a community
9. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
10. An organism that breaks down dead organic material
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. all of the food chains in an ecosystem.
2. an organism that eats plants and animals
3. a nonliving part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
4. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
7. An organism that creates its own food
8. an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
12. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
13. a place where an organism makes its home