Ecology

2. An organism that can produce its own food (like plants).
3. factors non-living components like temperature and water
6. An organism that hunts and kills another organism (prey) to eat it; the "hunter" in a predator-prey relationship.
11. a community of living organisms and their non-living environment)
12. A complex network of interconnected food chains
16. a species population size in a particular habitat
17. the place where an organism lives
18. Meat-eaters

1. the variety of living species on Earth, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi
4. An organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator; the "hunted" in a predator-prey relationship
5. the role an organism plays in its environment
7. level The position an organism occupies in a food chain, based on its feeding relationship with other organisms, with producers at the lowest level and top predators at the highest.
8. The linear sequence of organisms where one eats the other.
9. An organism that breaks down dead organic matter, like bacteria and fungi, returning nutrients back into the ecosystem
10. An organism that must consume other organisms to obtain energy.
13. Eats both plants and meat
14. factors living components like plants and animals
15. Plant-eaters