| A | B |
|---|
| abiotic | not alive |
| autotroph | producer..makes their own food |
| biodiversity | different forms of life in an area |
| biosphere | where there is life |
| biotic | alive |
| carnivore | meat eater |
| consumer | eats food from something else...heterotroph |
| carrying capacity | number of living things an area can support |
| community | all life in a given area |
| competition | struggle for the same resources |
| ecosystem | all life and nonlifei n a given area |
| decomposer | bacteria breakdown...recycle...fungus |
| ecology | study of living things |
| niche | role in an ecosystem |
| succession | one community replaces another over time |
| food chain/food web | who consumes who |
| habitat | where something lives |
| herbivore | plant eater |
| host | where parasites live |
| parasite | lives off another organinsm |
| limiting factor | what limits the size of a population |
| population | all members of ONE species in an area |
| predator/prey | one hunts and eats the other |
| scavenger | eats dead things |
| omnivore | eats both plants and meat |
