Interactions in Ecosystems

2. All the interacting members of a species in a single area
4. The space, conditions, and all the living and nonliving things around an organism
5. An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals
7. An organism that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals
9. A single, self-contained, living thing
13. The maximum population size that can be sustained by a given environment
14. A part of the ecosystem that is not living, such as sunlight, air (includes oxygen and carbon dioxide), water, rocks, and soil
15. An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants or animals without need for internal digestion

1. An organism that gets energy by eating only other animals
3. A long-term relationship between two different kinds of organisms where one or both receive benefit
6. An increase in the number of individuals of a given species over what its ecosystem can sustain, often with both direct and indirect effects on other organisms in the ecosystem
8. All objects that have biological processes that keep them alive, such as plants and animals
10. To directly affect or change
11. An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy
12. An organism that gets energy by eating only plants
16. All living and nonliving things and all their interactions in an area