Vocabulary

2. a species' average population size in a particular habitat
3. a living organism
5. a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem
7. an organism that eats organisms from a different population
10. all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area
11. a non-living organism
12. an ecological community comprised of biological, physical, and chemical components, considered as a unit
13. an organism that makes its own food
14. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem
16. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients

1. the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed
4. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
6. organism that breaks down dead organic material
8. an organism that mostly feeds on plants
9. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
15. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide