Ecology

5. Organisms that break down dead plants and animals into nutrients.
6. The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment.
10. Animals that hunt and eat other animals for food.
11. The role of an organism within its ecosystem.
12. The process of living organisms dying and their remains being broken down and recycled.
13. The process by which plants convert sunlight into energy.
15. A place where an organism lives and obtains all the things it needs to survive.
16. Animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals.
17. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

1. Organisms that produce their own food using sunlight.
2. An organism that eats plants.
3. A community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment.
4. A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.
7. A community of plants and animals that live together in a particular area.
8. The process of water moving through plants and evaporating into the atmosphere.
9. Non-living parts of an ecosystem, like water and soil.
14. A species that is in danger of becoming extinct.