Unit 8 Choice Board

2. diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter within each trophic level in a food chain or food web
5. A consumer that eats only animals.
7. Nonliving components of environment.
9. part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
10. All the different populations that live together in an area
12. total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
14. An organism that cannot make its own food.
15. A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
17. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
19. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

1. Ecological rule that states that no two species can occupy the same exact niche in the same habitat at the same time
3. A consumer that eats only plants.
4. Place where an organism lives
6. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
7. An organism that makes its own food
8. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
11. All the living organisms that inhabit an environment
13. organism that feeds on plant and animal remains and other dead matter
16. A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
18. A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms