Unit 9 Vocab

3. A living organism that shapes its environment
6. consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact
10. the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what
11. a long-term biological interaction in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed.
12. is the long-term heating of Earth's surface observed since the pre-industrial period
13. the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
14. build up of chemicals in fish
15. Any kind of green plants
17. all the inhabitants of a particular area.
21. the rise or increase in the contaminated substances caused by the intoxicating environment.
23. the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.
24. any organism that does not make its own energy.
25. an animal that feeds on flesh
26. the ecological interaction between two or more species where each species has a net benefit

1. a species' average population size in a particular habitat.
2. None-living part of an ecosystem that shapes an environment
4. a linear network of links in a food web
5. nontoxic, nonflammable chemicals containing atoms of carbon, chlorine, and fluorine.
7. organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms
8. an introduced species to an environment that becomes overpopulated
9. a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future
16. an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
18. an interacting group of various species in a common location
19. is the position it occupies in a food web
20. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes
22. an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.