Ecology Vocabulary

5. organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
9. organism that eats other organisms (plants/animals) for energy and nutrients
10. complex network of food chains showing feeding relationships within a community
11. organism that mostly eats meats, or other animal flesh
13. organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant/animal matter, making organic nutrients as a result
14. non-living organisms that shape its environment
17. organism that can't produce its own food and must eat other plants/animals to get energy
19. any living thing
20. organism that harbors another organism (symbiotic relationship)
21. organism that eats a variety of material
22. group for individuals of the same species

1. the art of the Earth that can support life
2. organisms that hunt and kill other organisms for food
3. interactions between living and non-living organisms
4. organism that mostly consumes decaying organisms
6. organism hunted and killed by other organisms
7. living organisms that shape an environment
8. organisms that make their own food
10. order of events in an ecosystem, where the organism are consumed in a linear order
12. 2 or more populations (of different species) in the same area at the same time
15. level organism's position in a food web
16. study of the relationships between living things and their environment
18. an organism's natural environment
20. organism that mostly feeds on plants
22. one organism benefits at the expense of another