Ecosystem

4. a sustainable habitat of interdependent animals, plants, and microorganisms and their environment.
6. an 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. is an ecological or 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. a 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 he sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
8. things that do not grow, need food, or reproduce.
10. Web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
13. living factors include plants, animals, and other organisms.