Ecology Introduction

3. -A community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other
4. -An organism that mostly feed on plants
5. -A living thing that shapes its environment
6. -The study of Organisms and how they interact with the environment around them
8. -Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
9. -An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem.
15. -An organism that eats both plants and animals
16. -An animal that kills and eats other animals
18. - An organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
21. -An organism that harbors another organism, inside or near their body, in a symbiotic relationship
22. - An organism that mostly feed on other organisms
24. -The whole number of People or Inhabitants in a Country
25. - relationship between the two living species in which one organism is benefited at the expense of the other

1. -Producers are organisms that make their own food
2. -A nonliving part of an organism that shapes its environment
7. -an organism that eats other organisms for energy and nutrients
10. -an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
11. -Any biological entity such as an animal,plant,fungus
12. -The position of an organism in the food chain
13. -A complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community.
14. -A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
17. -An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
19. -Is the region of earth that encompasses all living things
20. -A Group of actually or potentially interacting species living in the same location
23. -The natural home or environment of a living thing