Vocab 3

5. The process by which an organism forms carbohydrates using chemicals, rather than light, as an energy source
7. An organism that cannot make its own food
11. Step in a food chain or food web
14. Network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships amount the various organisms in an ecosystem
15. A consumer that eats both plants and animals

1. The movement of abiotic factors between the living and nonliving components within ecosystems
2. Organism that feeds on plant and animal remains and other dead matter
3. A nonliving part of an ecosystem
4. An organism that makes its own food
6. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
8. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
9. A living part of an ecosystem
10. Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy
12. A substance that is limited or scarce in an ecosystem so its limits productivity
13. A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten