Ecosystem

4. sustainable habitat of interdependent animals, plants, and microorganisms and their environment.
6. organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
9. an animal that naturally preys on others.
11. is a group of organisms belonging to the same species that live in the same area and interact with one another.
12. is when a natural or human-caused disturbance disrupts the natural balance of an ecosystem
14. is defined as a group of actually or potentially interacting species living in the same place.
15. the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.

1. environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant or other type of organism.
2. are organisms that create food from inorganic matter.
3. biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
5. is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants.
7. Chain the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
8. things do not grow, need food, or reproduce.
10. Web show how plants and animals are connected in many ways.
13. biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms.