Ecology Review

5. able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply
9. non-living parts of an organism's habitat
11. organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter
12. amount of biological or living diversity per unit area; species diversity, habitat diversity, and genetic diversity
15. Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment
16. organism that can make its own food through the process of photosynthesis
17. several interrelated food chains

1. climate classification system based on temperature, precipitation, and native vegetation
2. living organisms that inhabit an environment
3. Raising marine and freshwater fish or other aquatic organisms in ponds and underwater cages
4. organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
6. species that enter new ecosystems and multiply, harming native species and their habitats
7. practice of farming andd growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products
8. group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
10. relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other
13. process of making new products from materials that were used in another product
14. study of how living things interact with each other and their environment