Honors Bio Vocab

1. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
5. a person who searches for and collects discarded items.
6. an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.
7. an animal that feeds on flesh.
10. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
11. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
13. a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale.
14. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
15. a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
17. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
19. all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
20. the living components (organisms) that shape up the environment
23. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
24. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food

2. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
3. resulting from infestation by a parasite.
4. an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
6. an organism that feeds mostly on plants.
8. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
9. a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
12. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
16. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
18. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
21. each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy.
22. an animal that naturally preys on others.