Ecology part 1

2. natural home or environment of an organism
3. Organisms that are consumed for food
7. relating to or resulting from living things,in their ecological relations
8. The variety of life across all levels in a biological setting
10. consumer A high level predator in the food web
14. An animal that feeds on another animal
15. Total mass of organisms in a certain area
18. diversity variety of genes within a population,important for survival
19. levels levels in an ecosystem’s food chain where organisms obtain energy
20. organism that gets energy by eating living things in the food chain

1. capacity maximum population an environment can support
4. factors factors that restrict organism growth
5. non-living chemical and physical factors of an environment
6. web a complex diagram of who eats whom in an ecosystem
9. species organisms that disrupt ecosystems by dominating that region
11. community of living organisms interacting with their environment
12. chain Linear sequence of a predators and prey in an ecosystem from pants to apex species
13. Adjustment to repeated stimuli in organisms leading to decrease
16. Organism that makes its own food,often through photosynthesis
17. pyramid Ecological model of displaying the flow of calories through trophic levels