Ecosystem Vocabulary

3. An animal that eats both plants and animals
6. All living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment
8. Surroundings that an organism lives in
10. An organism that can make its own food
11. A diagram showing many overlapping food chains
13. An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead material and waste
14. The environment where an organism lives
16. A structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings

1. An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
2. The process by which a plant uses energy from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make food
4. A living thing
5. An animal that eats only plants
7. An animal that eats other animals
9. The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem;shows what eats what
12. A living part of an ecosystem
15. The nonliving part of an ecosystem