Living Things Vocab

4. Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
7. Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions
10. pyramid, A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
14. Organisms that produce their own food
17. A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region
18. Animals that feed on the bodies of dead organisms.
19. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
22. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
23. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

1. respiration, The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food
2. A consumer that eats only plants.
3. web, A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
5. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
6. Part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
8. An animal that eats both plants and animals
9. chain, A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
11. A consumer that eats only animals.
12. Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy.
13. All the different populations that live together in an area
15. Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food.
16. Physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
20. Describes living factors in the environment.
21. of Conservation of Energy, Energy cannot be created or destroyed