Ecology stuff

2. Consumers that eat dead organisms.
3. Things that keep a population from growing
5. A complex diagram showing the transfer of energy pathways in an ecosystem.
7. Can make their own food out of sunlight
10. Two or more organisms trying to use the same limited resources at the same time.
12. Largest population an environment can support over a period of time
13. The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
16. Organisms that break down dead organisms
19. Any association between two organisms living in close association with each other.
20. All the non-living things in an ecosystem
23. A community of organisms and the abiotic factors in the environment.
24. Consumers that eat plants
27. Organisms that eat other organisms.

1. Triangular diagram showing the loss of energy at each level of the food chain.
4. Individuals of one species benefit, while individuals of the other species do not benefit and are not harmed.
6. All the living things in an ecosystem
8. Gets their food from an outside source.
9. Organisms that eat meat
11. The way an organism interacts with the biotic and abiotic environment.
14. one organism benefits, and the other is adversely affected.
15. When one organism looks like another for protection
17. The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments.
18. Consumers that eat meat and plants.
21. The part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
22. Organisms that are eaten by other organisms.
25. An association in which both organisms benefit
26. A diagram that shows how the energy flows from one organism to the next.
27. Individuals of the same species in the same area at the same time