Life Science Vocab Review 1

1. A feature. quality, property, or trait of an object or organism
3. The process by which plants begin to grow from a seed or a spore
6. All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment.
10. An area that includes all living organisms and the surrounding physical features such as air, water. soil, Weather, and landforms
11. _____chain diagram representing the transfer of energy from the Sun through producers and a series of consumers
12. A factor in an environment relating to, caused by, or produced by living organisms
13. - An animal that obtains nutrients from eating other animals
14. A specific part of a chromosome or sequence of DNA that determines a particular feature or characteristic in an organism
15. The form of a trait that is expressed or shown When the combination of alleles for this trait is heterozygous.
18. A plant or animal action. reaction, or activity that occurs in response to stimuli. (ex. gravity, light, temperature)
19. An organism that can produce food from inorganic materials. (ex. carbon dioxide, sunlight, water)

2. A characteristic of an organism that Increases Its chances of survival in its environment
4. An organism that cannot produce its own food
5. Populations of different species of organisms living together in the same geographic area.
7. An animal that obtains nutrients only from plants
8. An asexual reproductive process in which an outgrowth of a parent organism detaches and forms a new individual of the same species
9. The existence of a wido range of different species in a given area or specific period of time
10. An organism whoso cells contain a nucleus surrounded by a membrane
13. An organism in a food chain that obtains nutrients from producerg or other consumers (consumers may be herbivores or carnivores).
16. any of two or more alternate forms of a gene that an organism may have for a particular trait
17. an environment factor not associated with the activities or living organisms