Unit 7 Science vocab

3. A large naturally occurring community of plants and animals
4. An organism that is hunted, killed, and eaten by a predator
5. A geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms thrive
9. An organism that lives inside an organism and benefits from its host
12. An organism that derives its energy from plants and animals
13. Water with low salt concentration typially less than 1%
14. A branch of biology that studies how living organisms interact with each other and their physical environment

1. A state of balance between opposing forces or actions
2. The process by which a living organism maintains a stable internal environment despite world changes
6. An organism that survives by hunting, killing, and consuming prey
7. An organism that derives its energy from plants
8. An organism that can produce its own food
9. A group of the same species living in the same geographic area at the same time
10. An interconnected food chain within an ecosystem
11. The long-term average of the weather patterns