forest ecosystem

Question 1

consumer

Answer 1

an organism that feeds on organic matter because it cannot produce it.

Question 2

decomposer

Answer 2

an organism that absorbs nutrients from living things or the organic
matter they leave behind, turning it into simpler inorganic matter.

Question 3

inorganic

Answer 3

not produced by living things

Question 4

organic

Answer 4

produced almost exclusively by living (or once-living) things.

Question 5

organism

Answer 5

a single living thing.

Question 6

population

Answer 6

all the organisms of a certain kind in a particular place.

Question 7

producer

Answer 7

an organism that converts simple inorganic matter (such as water and
carbon dioxide) into organic matter (like sugar and protein).