Intro to Ecology

2. An organism that mostly feeds on plants.
6. Someone who creates and supplies goods or services.
8. An area classified according to the species that live in that location.
9. An organism that regularly consumes a variety of materials, including plants, animals, algae, and fungi.
11. Study the relationship between plants, animals, and the environment.
14. Characterized by the fact that they are reproductively isolated from other groups.
15. A social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.
16. The study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
17. Involves the use of energy released by inorganic chemical reactions to produce food.
18. An organism that mostly feeds on meat.

1. Organisms that consume dead and decaying organic matter known as detritus to obtain energy and nutrition.
3. The region of the earth that encompasses all living organisms: plants, animals, and bacteria.
4. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
5. A group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area.
7. Photosynthetic microscopic organisms that are technically bacteria.
10. A community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
12. An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
13. Breaks apart dead organisms into simpler inorganic materials.