Science Vocabulary

4. a community of interacting organisms and their surrounding environment
6. material that produced in a plant or animal that has no further use to that organism
12. dependent on another for survival
13. a chemical compound of carbon and oxygen atoms, usually in the form of a gas, and is necessary for life
15. a group of related parts that make up a whole and can carry out functions its individual parts cannot
16. living (or once-living) elements of an environment

1. a substance that organisms need in order to survive and grow
2. the process by which plants make food from water, air, and sunlight
3. the process by which dead materials are broken down into simpler forms of matter
5. an atom found in water and air and is necessary for life
7. nonliving elements of an environment
8. the struggle between two organisms for the same resources within an environment
9. materials or particles that make up both living and nonliving things
10. non-matter that is stored in materials, allowing living things to grow, move, and reproduce
11. the process of putting something in
14. the point at which a product comes out or a process is completed