Ecology and the Environment.

4. a living part of an ecosystem
7. a place where an organisms usually lives
8. an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organism's or animals
10. all of the populations of different species that live and interact in an area
12. web feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem made of food chains
13. a non-living part of an ecosystem
15. an organism that is eaten by a predator
17. an organism that can make its own food by using energy from the sun
19. a role the population plays in the ecosystem such as how it gets food and interacts with each other
20. an organism that eats only palnt and animal material
21. pyramid shows the direction that energy flows through an ecosystem and each level on the pyramid is called a tropic level
22. a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
23. a community of organisms and their environment

1. an organism that eats other organism's to get energy
2. an organism that eat's another
3. factor anything that can limit the size of a population
5. an organism that eats only plants
6. chain the path of energy transfer from producers to consumers
9. the study of how organisms interact with one another and their internment
11. any close relationship between different species
14. an organism that eats only animal material
16. organisms that are closely related that can mate and produce fertile offspring's
18. large geographic areas with similar climates and ecosystems
20. a complete living thing