| A | B |
|---|
| abiotic | nonliving parts of earth |
| autotroph | an organism that produces its own food; the source of energy for all other living things on earth |
| biosphere | all life on earth and all parts of earth |
| biotic | living parts of earth |
| carnivore | eats animals (meat) |
| community | all the different populations in a specific area |
| ecology | the study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment |
| food web | a representation of many interconnected food chains that shows the feeding relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers |
| herbivore | eats plants |
| heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food; consumers |
| population | a group of individuals of the same species in a specific area |
| omnivores | eats plants and animals (meat) |
