Environment

1. web all of the food chains in an ecosystem
4. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
6. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material
7. an organism that captures and eats another (the prey)
10. organisms that make their own food
11. Species an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area
14. an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
15. chain a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
17. Pyramid a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem

2. an organism that eats plants and animals
3. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
5. consumer animals that eat plants
8. An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem
9. Consumer The organisms that prey on the secondary consumers
12. consumer The organisms that eat the primary consumers
13. is any animal that serves as a food source for another animal.
16. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals