Biology Vocab

3. the organisms that is consumed.
7. an animal that breaks down the animal remains and waste for food.
8. the organism that consumes another.
9. the organisms that benefits in a parasitic relationship.
11. the living parts of an environment, such as organisms.
12. the branch of biology that specializes in the study of how organism interact with each other and their environment.
13. the physical environment a species lives and interacts with.
18. states that two organisms cannot have the same niche for an extended period of time
22. a producer that makes food through chemical compounds by chemosynthesis.
24. an animal that eats both plants and animals.
25. the combined mass of all organisms at a specific tropic level.

1. a decomposer that consumes the remaining matter after decomposers consume what they can, such as fungus and protozoan.
2. the role or job an organisms plays in its ecosystem.
3. a relationship where one organism benefits and one is harmed.
4. a producer that uses the energy in sunlight to make food through photosynthesis.
5. a relationship where one organisms consumes another.
6. a decomposer that consumes detritus.
10. the nonliving parts of an environment, such as sunlight, water, and soil.
14. a relationship between two organisms in which one benefits and the other is not affected.
15. organisms who play a vital role in their ecosystem such that changes in their populations affect the populations of many other organisms.
16. a animals that only consumes plants and algae.
17. the organisms that is harmed in a parasitic relationship.
18. the last stage in ecological succession that can only be reached in a undisturbed community.
19. an animal that eats other organisms.
20. a diagram that shows one specific path of energy and matter.
21. a diagram that shows multiple intersecting paths of energy and matter.
23. a relationship in which both organisms benefit.