Ecology Terminology

6. A chemical reaction that makes food (occurring in plants)
7. A consumer that obtains its nutrients by feeding off the body of another living
9. Producers
11. An organism that makes its own food.
12. Energy used by plants for photosynthesis
15. Non-living components of an ecosystem
16. Community of living organisms and the environment they live in.
18. A meat-eating consumer.
20. An organism that eats other organisms to obtain nutrients.
21. An organism’s physical, chemical and biological surroundings.
23. A chemical reaction that releases energy from food.

1. An organism that obtains its nutrients by breaking down dead organisms and
2. A group of organisms of the same species living in a particular community.
3. A plant-eating consumer.
4. Organisms that share an environmental resource, e.g. animals that eat the same
5. The living components of an ecosystem
8. moving between its living and non-living components)
10. Different species of organisms living together in a particular place.
13. The place in which an organism lives
14. Process in which materials in an ecosystem are reused over and over again (by
17. A consumer that feeds off the bodies of dead organisms.
19. All living organisms are found in this ‘sphere’ (or layer around the Earth)
22. Study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environments.