Ecology Vocabulary

1. The living components that shape this world
5. Organisms that make their own food
8. The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth
9. The hierarchical levels in an ecosystem
10. A linear sequence that connects organisms based on what they eat
12. All the inhabitants of a particular area
14. An organism that feeds on or breaks down dead plant or animal matter
18. An organism that can't produce it's own food and must eat other plants/animals to get energy
19. A biological community of interacting organisms
20. Eats meat
22. A larger organism that harbors a smaller organism
23. The natural home of an organism
24. An organism that eats plants and animals

2. An organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass
3. All the food chains in an ecosystem
4. Organism that eats other plants/animals for energy and nutrients
6. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
7. Non-living part of an ecosystem
11. Organism that eats plants
12. Organism that hunts or kills for food
13. An organism that uses light, water, co2, or other chemicals to make its own food
15. A group of people living in the same place
16. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
17. A branch of biology
21. A relationship between different species where one lives on or feeds from the other in a harmful way