| A | B |
| producers | Organisms that can carry on photosynthesis. |
| mutualism | relationship in which all species that take part benefit. |
| omnivores | Consumers that eat both plants and animals. |
| decomposers | consumers that feed on the waste of living organisms and on dead, decaying organisms. |
| community | organisms that live together in an ecosystem. |
| niche | the role a species plays in a community. |
| ecosystem | all do not contain millions of species. |
| commensalism | long term relationship win which one species benefits while the other species seems to be unaffected. |
| carnivores | meat eating consumers. |
| ecosystems | organisms interacting with one another and with their physical environment. They are constantly changing. |
| parasites | harms their hosts but may not cause them to die. |
| population | the name of the organisms of the same kind in a community. |
| chlorophyll | organisms that contain this and do not contain this both depend on the sun for energy. |
| parasitism | the relationship in which one organism lives off, feeds on, and harms another organism |
| symbiosis | long term close relationship between different species. |
| physical | organisms of the same species have the same general ________ characteristics and other adaptations. |
| herbivores | consumers that eat plants. |
| predator-prey | in this relationship, the predator eats the prey. |
| smaller | most ecosystems are made up of many smaller ecosystems |
| biotic, abiotic | Ecosystems are made up of ____ and ______ factors |
| soil | _____, temp, and sunlight are some examples of abiotic factors in an ecosystem. |
| insects | an example of biotic factors in an ecosystem. |