Biology Vocab

5. The role of a species
7. Study of how living things interact with each other and the environment
13. Between members of different species
18. An organism which consumes animals
19. levels Feedkng positions in food chain
20. Organism such as fungi that eat organic matter left by other decomposers
21. Lives in another organism
22. Organism that consume detritus
23. Species that is consumed by another species
24. Parasite lives in it
27. Symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other in unaffected
28. Consumes the soft tissues of dead animals
29. Between members of June same species
30. One species benefits and the other is harmed
31. In an area that has never been colonized
34. Physical environment in which a species lives
37. Breaks down the remains and waste of other organisms, releasing simple inorganic molecules back into the environment

1. Species that plays an important role in the community
2. Succession always ends with a final stable stage
3. Both species benefit
4. Represents a single pathway through which energy flows through the ecosystem
6. An autotroph who uses energy from chemical compounds to make food
8. The change in the number of species at place over time
9. The first species to colonize an area
10. Living aspects of the environment
11. Waste and other organic debris that collects on soil
12. Organism that consumes producers such as plants
14. Organism that uses energy from the sun to make food
15. The idea that two different species cannot occupy the same niche in the same place for very long
16. Consumes plants and animals
17. In a formerly inhabited area
25. Total mass of organisms at the tropic level
26. One species consumes another
32. Non living aspects of the environment
33. Distinct characteristics in an organism's role or body that occurs when competing species evolve different adaptations
35. Species that consumes another species
36. Represents multiple pathways through which energy flows through an ecosystem