Food Webs

4. relating to, caused by, or involving living organisms
5. an organism that makes its own food from inorganic substances like water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight or chemical energy
6. a social unit or group of people who share common characteristics, interests, values, identity, or a sense of place.
8. the process or trait by which living things adjust to their environment to survive and reproduce
10. an organism that breaks down dead plants, animals, and waste materials into simpler inorganic substances.
13. the maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely without long-term degradation of its resources
15. non-living
16. a complex, interconnected network of all the feeding relationships and energy pathways within an ecological community
17. the long-term average of weather conditions—such as temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation
18. in an ecosystem is a living organism—also called a heterotroph—that cannot produce its own food and must get energy and nutrients by eating other organisms.
19. any organism that is hunted, attacked, and consumed by a predator for food and energy

1. the natural environment where a species or community of organisms lives, grows, and reproduces
2. the foundational process by which primary producers (like plants, algae, and cyanobacteria) convert solar energy into chemical energy
3. a linear sequence of organisms through which energy and nutrients pass as one organism eats another.
5. an organism that hunts, kills, and consumes another living organism, known as its prey, for nutritional energy.
7. a group of individuals of the same species that live in a specific geographic area at the same time and are capable of interbreeding
9. a large, global-scale region of the Earth defined by its climate, soil type, and the unique groups of plants and animals that live there
11. any liquid or solid water—such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail—that falls from the atmosphere to Earth's surface
12. a functional unit of ecology where living organisms interact with each other and their non-living physical environment, exchanging energy and cycling nutrients as a single system
14. the variety of all living things on Earth