| A | B |
|---|
| abiotic factors | The nonliving things in an ecosystem including soil, rocks, rain, snow, temperature, and sunlight. |
| algae | Plant-like microscopic organisms. |
| biotic factors | The living (and once living) things in an ecosystem including trees, birds, insects etc. |
| carnivores | Meat-eating consumers (eats only other animals). |
| chlorophyll | A substance in plants that capture light energy from the sun and gives the leaves and stems their green color. |
| commensalism | A close relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits one of the organisms while neither benefiting nor hurting the other species. (crab spider hides in a flower to eat insects). |
| community | All the organisms living together in a particular ecosystem. |
| consumer | A living thing that obtains energy by eating other living things - either producers or other consumers. |
