Ecology

4. living community and physical environment functioning together as an independent and relatively stable system
5. all the members of a species inhabiting a given location
6. cannot make their own food; must eat
7. large geographical community that has a particular type of climate
8. differences in living things in an ecosystem
10. live on dead matter
11. meat eating animal
13. can maintain itself by independent effort
15. consumer both plants and meat
16. all the interacting populations in a given area
17. the organism's role in the community
18. feeds on something
19. can make their own food
21. portion of the earth where life exists
23. physical factors
24. convert radiant energy of the sun into chemical energy of food

1. the study of interactions of living things with each other and their physical environment
2. plant eating animals
3. maximum number of organisms the resources of an area can support
9. replacement of populations in habitat as it moves toward a stable state
12. place where a plant or animal can get food, water, shelter and space it needs to live
13. animals that feed on other animals that they have not killed
14. growth of cities has destroyed land and wetlands ruining natural habitats
20. living factors
22. animals which kill and consume their prey