Ecology Vocabulary

3. North Carolina has a ___ of 9.944 million people
4. uses energy from the environment to make food
7. Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and similar communities
8. Energy from hot springs and steam pockets underground
9. obtain energy by eating dead organisms
12. Giraffes are ___ they only eat plants
14. a collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, along with their environment
15. Cells a cell producing an electric current directly from a chemical reaction
17. energy from the sun
19. harnesses the energy of nuclear fusion (release huge amounts of energy occur in the sun ans stars (plasma))
20. A fuel derived directly from living matter
22. feed on plant and animal remains
23. ___ cycle does not enter the atmosphere, remains in rock and soil, and in ocean sediments, Used in fertilizers

1. __ (wave power) is a bay or estuary that is dammed
2. We use ___ for gas
5. ___ eat both plants & animals
6. ___ assemblages of different populations that live together in a defined area
10. falling water turns turbines in a dam producing electricity produces 5% of the power used in the U.S
11. Fossil fuels are a ____ resource
13. each step in a food chain or web
16. Primrose Everdeen's cat is a victim of ___ he has tape worms
18. spread of bacterial and viral disease
21. ___turns turbines on giant wind mills
24. The animals in the tropical rain forest are losing their ___