Ecology Vocabulary

4. An organism that only eats plants.
5. An organism that eats both plants and meat.
6. An organism that is hunted by other larger organisms.
7. A system where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscapes, work together to form a bubble of life.
8. An organism that hunts other smaller organisms.
10. the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them.
11. An organism that eats only meat (other animals).
12. Many living organisms in an area.

1. A predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.
2. A diagram that shows all the intertwined food chains in a single ecosystem.
3. Any organism that breaks down or eats dead or decaying material for its energy.
6. Organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun.
9. Many organisms of the same species.
11. An organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.
13. One single organism.