Ecology

2. plants that produce their own food through photosynthesis using energy from the sun
9. a consumer that eats both plants and other animals
10. the place a person, plant or animal lives including what the land looks like, what plants grow there, what animals live there and even the weather patterns
11. a consumer that eats other fish or animals
13. a natural environment that a plant or animal lives in

1. a process that plants use to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide gas in the air into sugar the plant uses and oxygen we can breathe
3. organisms that break down dead organisms and organic wastes, and return nutrients to the soil or water, completing the food chain and the cycle of life.
4. a consumer that kills and eats another creature
5. links between plants and animals as they eat
6. an animal that obtains its nutrition by eating producers or consumers
7. consists of all the food chains in an ecosystem
8. animals that are killed and eaten by predators
11. the usual, or typical, amount of rain, snow, cloud cover and sunlight an environment (or biome) will experience during a year
12. all the living and nonliving things that are together in a place
13. a consumer that only eats plants
14. a very large habitat that contains many of the same types of plants and animals