Vocabulary stuff

4. encompasses both the physical and environmental conditions it requires
6. is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.
8. are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms and they carry out decomposition.
10. a living organism that shapes its environment.
12. is a place where an organism makes its home. A habitat meets all the environmental conditions an organism needs to survive.
13. is an organism that produces complex organic compounds using carbon from simple substances such as carbon dioxide
14. are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators

1. is an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals.
2. is an organism that mostly feeds on plants. Herbivores range in size from tiny insects such as aphids to large, lumbering elephants
3. is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources
5. is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at an apex predator species, detritivores, or decomposer species.
7. is a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
9. s an organism that creates its own food or energy
11. in a food chain is a living creature that eats organisms from a different population