Chapter 8 Ecosystems

An area's average weather conditions over a long time.

All living things and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact. 

All the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.

Different populations living in the same area.

Area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem.

Specific role an organism has in its habitat.

Living thing that makes its own food.

Living thing that eats other living things.

Animal that eats plants.

Animal that gets food by eating other animals.

Animal that eats plants and other animals.

Organism that breaks down plant and animal waste and remains.

The transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten.

System of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions.

Occurs when two or more living things need the same resorces in order to