Ecology Vocabulary

2. Major regional or global community of organisms
4. A group of organisms of the same species
6. A group of many species of populations
8. An organism that eats a variety of foods
11. An organism that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem,the ecosystem would be very different (or breakdown) if it were missing
13. The variety of living things in an ecosystem
14. The levels of nourishment in a food chain
15. Non-living things that affect an ecosystem
16. The study of interactions between living things
17. An organism that makes its own food
18. Organism that breaks down organic matter to simpler compounds
21. One path to show transfer of matter and energy between organisms
22. An organism that eats a limited number of foods
23. An organism that eats only meat

1. An organism that gets energy from eating other living things
3. An interconnection of all the foodchains in an ecosystem
5. An individual living thing
7. Living things in an ecosystem
9. An organism that eats dead matter
10. An organism that eats only plants
12. The process by which an organism uses Chemicals (instead of light) to make carbohydrates
19. An organism that eats plants and animals
20. All the non-living and living things that are interconnected