Unit 8 Vocabulary

1. - the process by which dead materials are broken down into simpler forms of matter
4. – materials or particles that make up both living and nonliving things.
7. - nonliving elements of an environment
9. – non-matter that is stored in materials, allowing living things to grow, move, and reproduce
10. – the point at which a product comes out or a process is completed
11. - the study of the interactions among organisms and their environment.
12. dioxide – a chemical compound of carbon and oxygen atoms, usually in the form of a gas, and is necessary for life
13. - a group of related parts that make up a whole and can carry out functions its individual parts cannot.
14. - the process by which plants make food from water, air, and sunlight
15. - living elements of an environment
17. – an atom found in water and air and is necessary for life

2. – dependent on another for survival
3. – the process of putting something in
5. – material that produced in a plant or animal that has no further use to that organism
6. - a community of interacting organisms and their surrounding environment
8. – a substance that organisms need in order to survive and grow
12. – the struggle between two organisms for the same resources within an environment
16. – series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order