Ecosystems

2. Behaviors that an organism inherits and knows how to do without being taught.
4. Organisms that only eat plants and plant products.
6. Living things in the environment.
7. Chain The transfer of food energy between organisms in an ecosystem.
8. Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
9. A living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms.
14. Web A group of food chains that overlap.
15. A community of organisms and the environment in which they live.
16. Process that allows plants make food.
17. Pyramid A diagram that shows how much energy is passed from one organism to the next at each level in the food chain.
18. Animals that are hunted by predators.

1. Animals that eat both plants and animals.
3. Animals that eat other animals.
5. Nonliving things in the environment.
8. Organisms that make their own food.
10. A group of organisms that live in the same area and interact with each other.
11. All the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.
12. A trait or characteristic that helps an organism survive.
13. Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms.
16. All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem.