Vocab 5.9- Interactions and Food Web

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy

An animal that gets energy by only eating other animals

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem

A process by which animals use oxygen and food to make energy and carbon dioxide

An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms

An inherited trait or learned behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings

An organism that gets energy by using dead organisms, nonliving materials, or waste as food

An increase in the number of individuals of a given species over what its ecosystem can sustain, often with both direct and indirect effects on other organisms in the ecosystem