| A | B |
|---|
| the green part/ captures light energy | chlorophyll |
| the process by which plants make thier own food using energy from the sun | photosynthesis |
| an organism that makes its own food | producers |
| all the organism of the same kind living together | population |
| Organisms that live together in an ecosystem | community |
| non-living thing | abiotic |
| something that is alive | biotic |
| living things | organism |
| an area in which living things and non-living things interact | ecosystem |
| the space that an organism requires | habitat |
| learned or instinct | behavioral adaptation |
| a physical part of an organism that helps it survive | physical adaptations |
| a contest among organisms for the limited resources | competition |
| a population that no longer exists | extinct |
| a population that is likely to become endangered if not protected | threatened |
| a relationship between 2 organisms where 1 is harmful to the other | parasitism |
| two organisms living together in which one benefits and the other gets no benefit or harm | commensalism |
| both individuals benefit from one another | mutualism |
| a long term relationship between different kinds of organisms | symbiosis |
| an organism that is hunted and eaten | prey |
| an organism that hunts and eats others | predator |
| an organism that obtains energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms | decomposers |
| eat both plants and meat | omnivore |
| eat plants | herbivore |
| eat meat | carnivore |
| an organism that obtains energy by eating other living things | consumers |
| shows how consumers in an ecosystem are connected to one another according to what they eat | food chain |
| plants or animals that do not usually grow or live in a place | exotic |
| what an organism eats and its habitat | niche |
| a behavior that an organism inherits | instinct |
| a behavior that an animal learns from its parents | learned |
