Ecology Vocab

3. An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living
5. Living factors in the environment
6. Shows the direction energy flows in a food chain or web
7. A behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment.
10. Organisms that hunts and kills its food
13. Plants and animals that have moved or been relocated to places where they are not native
14. Organism that is hunted and killed for food

1. A one-celled or many-celled organism such as a mushroom, yeast, or mold; often classified as decomposers in a food chain or web
2. Place where an organism lives; provides food, water, shelter, and space
4. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
8. Non-living factors in the environment.
9. Type of biodiversity that is based on the variety of inherited traits present in a population
10. Type of succession in which a series of changes occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist; starts from bare rock.
11. Animals obtain this from the foods they eat
12. Refers to an ecosystem consisting mostly of water