Biology Vocab

2. Producer that uses energy from chemical compounds (not the sun) to make food.
3. An organism that feeds on a living host.
6. Wetlands formed where rivers meet the sea.
8. A biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment.
11. and organism that makes its own food
12. Movement of individuals out of a population
13. any living thing
14. Something you can record using your senses to gather information about a natural event.

1. The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem
3. Microscopic, free-floating, autotrophic organisms that function as producers in aquatic ecosystems.
4. Group of organisms of the species that occupy the same space at the same time
5. Biological community and all the nonliving factors that affect it
7. Movement of individuals into a population
9. The total mass of organisms in a given area.
10. the amount of dissolved salt in a water