Living World Vocabulary

3. An organism’s “job” in a natural community
8. Required by animals to keep warm and move around
9. Chemical process by which plants convert the Sun’s energy into chemical energy
10. Consumers that feed on plants and animals
11. Organisms that trap energy from the Sun
12. All the plants and animals living in a defined area
13. Process of breaking down food
14. Tube through which food reaches the stomach from the mouth
16. A complex carbohydrate for storing energy

1. Animals feeding on plant material
2. Special structures or behaviours that enable an organism to live in a habitat
4. Places that animals and plants like to live
5. Features that distinguish Living from Non-living
6. A pattern of eating or being eaten in a community
7. Organisms feed on dead organic matter
15. Where animals and plants live in their surroundings