| A | B |
|---|
| Salinity | saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water |
| Producers | organisms that make their own food |
| Autotrophs | Fancy name for organisms that produce their own food |
| Consumers | organisms that need to eat food for energy |
| Decomposer | organism that obtains nutrients from dead plants and animals |
| Prey | animal hunted or caught by another animal for food |
| Predator | animal that lives by killing and eating other animals |
| Habitat | place where an organism or animal normally lives |
| Adaption | any alteration in the structure or function of an organism in order to survive |
| Camouflage | physical adaptation that allows organism to blend with its surroundings |
| Mimicry | type of camouflage when an organism imitates another animal or object |
| Migration | long-distance movement of animals, usually seasonal |
| Symbiotic | special type of interaction between two different organisms - beneficial |
| Mutualism | two organisms of different species benefit in the activity of the other |
| Parasitism | one organism benefits from or lives off another organism |
| Commensalism | relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neutral |
| Biodiversity | variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat |
| Biome | large community of plants and animals in a distinct region |
| Food chain | different organisms dine out, starting with plants & usually ending in carnivore |
| Food web | many food chains interconnected by dining variety |
| Instinct | something naturally known, passed on through genes |
| Learned behavior | way an animal acts that is taught or acquired through experience |
| Countershading | protective coloration of some animals by light and dark tones |
| Gyre | giant circular oceanic surface current |
| Biotic | living things |
| Abiotic | non-living things |
| Water cycle | process by which water moves between states of matter |
| Carbon cycle | process by which carbon moves through the environment, including carbon dioxide |
