chapter 5 glossary

1. an organisms in or on which a parasite lives
5. the term used to describe all the conditions that affect a plant or animal in its habit.
7. all living things.
11. factor non-living factors in the environment.
12. an animal that only eats plants
13. active or hunting at night
15. an animals that eats other animals.
17. organisms that get the energy they need by braking down dead matter and waste products
18. an animal that eats both plants and animals
19. consumer a consumer that eats a second-order consumer.

2. another name for interdependence.
3. an animal that is eaten by a predator
4. chain the flow of energy from organism to organism in a series of feeding relationships.
6. a consumer that eats only other animals.
8. web a number of food chains combined.
9. the place where an organism lives.
10. consumer a consumer that eats a first-order consumer.
14. consumer a consumer that eats a producer
16. factor consumer living factors in the environment.