Ecology extra credit

2. Orgaanism that can convert sunlight into food
4. eats only animal flesh
5. shows the flow of energy from one trophic level to the next in an ecosystem
7. relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other
8. two organisms in which one benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
10. eats the producers
14. living part of an environment
16. the living and nonliving parts of an environment
17. eats both plants and animals
18. the top of the food chain
19. environmental factor or variable that can restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of a population

1. breaks down dead decaying matter
3. eats only plants
6. nonliving part of an environment
7. a group of organisms that are the same species
9. one single living thing
11. interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association
12. symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved
13. one or more different species living the same area
15. a large geographic area characterized by specific climate, plant, and animal life
20. interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community