Ecology terms

1. factors all the living things in an ecosystem that interact with each other and their environment
5. eats dead animals that have died or have already been killed
6. study of living things interacting with each other
8. an organism that harbors another organism in or on its body, providing it with resources.
10. factors the non-living, physical and chemical components of an environment that influence living organisms
11. chain the order in which organisms eat each other, showing how energy and nutrients flow through an ecosystem.
12. organisms that hunt and kill other organisms for food
14. only eats plants for nutrients
17. any organism that breaks down or eats decaying material for its energy source
18. level the position an organism occupies in a food chain
19. organisms that make their own food from energy sources like sunlight or chemicals forming the base of food chains
20. The part of Earthn where life exists

2. different populations of living organisms interacting in a specific area
3. animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
4. the number of organisms living in a certain place
7. eats plants and meat for nutrients
8. The natural environment where an organism lives, providing everything it needs to survive
9. A community of living things interacting with their non-living environment
11. web shows who eats whom within an ecosystem, representing interconnected food chains
12. an organism that lives in/on another organism, feeding off of its nutrients causing the organism harm.
13. an organism that eats plants or animals for energy and nutrients
15. only eats meat for nutrients
16. an organism that can produce its own food using h20 co2 or other chemicals.
21. An organism is an individual animal, plant,single-celled life form.