Ecology

4. eats both plants and meat
6. larger particles allow it to drain quickly
7. the succession that occurs after a volcanic eruption forms new land where there is no soil
8. living or once living and now dead or made by something that was alive
10. one species benefits, the other is harmed in someway
11. the variety of life or species on Earth
12. one species benefits, the other is neither helped nor harmed
16. by plants used with water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide and made with sugar and oxygen
17. must eat something for energy
20. by animals used with food/glucose and made with carbon dioxide
21. eats plants
23. recycles dead organisms and waste
25. one living thing
26. eats dead animals
27. both species benefit from the relationship

1. a close relationship between species that benefits at least one of the species
2. a pyramid that shows the amount of energy that moves from one energy level to the next
3. makes its own food through the process of photosynthesis
5. all the members of one species living in an area
9. being dependent on others for some needs, being mutually depended on each other
13. mix of sand, clay, and silt
14. made of weathered rock, minerals, humus, water and air
15. the succession that occurs after a forest fire where soil is left
18. eats meat
19. all of the different populations living in an area no biotic factors
22. smaller or tightly packed particles keep it from draining quickly
24. all of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
26. provides energy for food chains
28. an environmental factor that is not alive, never lived, and was not part of something living