Ecosystem

2. An organism that eats only plants (e.g., a deer or a grasshopper).
3. The place where an organism lives.
4. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another.
6. The number of organisms of the same species that live in a particular geographic area at the same time.
8. Organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms and wastes.
10. Living organisms in an ecosystem.
11. Organisms that make their own food.
13. An organism's special role in an ecosystem.
14. An interacting group of various species in a common location.

1. An animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals.
4. A scientist that studies the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another.
5. Organisms that generally obtain food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter.
7. An animal that is hunted and eaten by a predator.
9. A community of living things interacting with the nonliving parts of the environment
12. Non-living components in an ecosystem.