Ecology Vocab

5. Organisms using light, H2O, CO2, and other chemicals to make food
9. Organisms eating plants and animals for nutrients/energy
10. A group of food chains within an ecosystem
11. Organism that mostly eats meat and flesh of other animals/plants
13. An organism that feeds off and breaks down dead organisms
14. Non living things that impact/make up the ecosystem
17. Organisms that eat other living things
19. Any living thing
20. The organism that "has" the parasite or other organism during these relationships
21. Eats a variety of plants and animals
22. A group of organisms from the same species

1. Living things and where Earth supports living things
2. An animals that eats and kills other animals
3. Nonliving and living things interacting in an area
4. An animal that eats dead organisms (plants ands animals)
6. Animals killed and eaten by other animals
7. Living or once living things that impact the ecosystem
8. Organism creates its own food
10. The order that living things depend on each other for food
12. Different living things interacting in an area
15. Levels/positions on a food chain
16. Relationship of living things + the environment
18. Home of a plant or animal
20. Organism who mostly eats plants
22. Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is negatively impacted