Ecology Vocab

5. Consumers that cannot make their own food, and get their energy and nutrients from eating other animals.
6. The role and location of an organism within a community.
9. The transfer of food energy from one organism to another in a community.
10. Animals that breakdown dead and decaying organisms.
11. A living organism that shapes its environment.
14. Producers that make their own food, and get the energy and nutrients they need using the sunlight from the sun.
15. Organisms that cannot make their own food.

1. A series of connected food chains that are related to each other in an ecosystem.
2. Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
3. A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
4. Animals that eat dead organisms.
7. Organisms that make their own food using the sunlight from the sun.
8. Animals that only eat plants.
12. Animals that eat other animals.
13. The environment where a plant or animal lives.