Vocab B

6. - the synthesis of organic compounds by bacteria or other living organisms using energy derived from reactions
10. - an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
11. web - a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
13. - an animal that feeds on plants.
15. - an animal which feeds on dead organic material, especially plant detritus
16. necessarily agree with
18. - a position or role taken by a particular kind of organism within its community. Such a position may be occupied
19. and water.
21. inorganic chemicals, typically in the absence of sunlight
22. - an animal that feeds on plants.
23. - the preying of one animal on others

1. - the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does
2. - association between organisms of two different species in which each benefits.
3. - the state or condition of feeding on plants.
4. chain - a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
5. different organisms in different localities
7. - the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events
8. - the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon
9. - is an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
12. - interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of
13. - an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
14. - the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.
17. - an animal that feeds on both plants and flesh
20. - the influence of closely associated species on each other in their evolution.