Biology vocab

5. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.
8. a nonliving part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
9. the role an organism plays in a community
10. an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
11. an organism that creates its own food or energy.
14. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals.

1. an organism that eats plants and animals.
2. all of the food chains in an ecosystem.Autotrophs
3. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
4. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
6. a living organism that shapes its environment.
7. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
12. an organism that breaks down dead organic material
13. a place where an organism makes its home