Ecosystem Vocabulary

4. an animal that feeds on flesh.
10. all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
12. an organism derives its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
15. the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
16. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
18. a person who receives or entertains other people as guests.
19. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
20. an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.

1. an animal taken by a predator as food.
2. an animal that only eats plants
3. a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.
5. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
6. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
7. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
8. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
9. an animal that naturally preys on others.
11. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
13. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
14. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
17. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.