Unit 5

2. a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring
3. __________ factor is a living organism that shapes its environment
6. __________ factor is a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
11. organism that eats to get energy; does not make its own energy
12. a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life
13. process that recycles carbon dioxide and oxygen throughout an ecosystem
14. process that recycles carbon dioxide and oxygen throughout an ecosystem

1. causes damage of soil, loss of trees and plants, and more competition
4. Food _____ consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.
5. A group of individuals of the same species within a community
7. Food _____ is the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
8. organism that makes its own food with the energy of the sun
9. the act or process of trying to get something another organism is also trying to get
10. organism that breaks down organic material
15. first step of a basic food chain