vocabulary

A niche is the function of an organism in a community.

A ______ is an organism who gains energy and nutrients through a diet that consists of detritus.

____ are all the populations living together in one area.

____ are all the members of one species in the same area.

______ is the study of the relationship between living and nonliving things.

_____ is the process by which producers make their own food.

_____ is an organism that cannot make its own food because it cannot perform photosynthesis.

A _____ is a complex biotic community characterized by specific plants and animals and a specific climate or region.

A ________ is a plant eating animal that gets eaten by a secondary consumer.

______ are plant eating animals.

A ______ is a model of energy flow in a community.

____ are animals that eat both plants and animals.

____ eat dead animals.

_____ means meat-eating animals.

_____ means nonliving things

A _____ is a place where species live.

A _____ is the pattern formed when food chains connect.

_____ means living things.

A _____ is a meat-eating animal that are at the top of the food chain.

A _____ is the pattern of eating and begin eaten.

_____ includes all the plants, animals, and nonliving natural things in an area.

____ is an organism that makes its own food using the process of photosynthesis