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| A form of potential energy in which energy is stored in chemical bonds; e.g. energy stored in a battery or food |
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| An ecological unit composed of groups of organisms or population of different species occupying a particular area |
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| An organism requiring complex organic compounds for food, which are obtained by preying on other organisms or by eating particles of organic matter. |
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| An organism that eats dead or decaying matter |
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| The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings. |
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| All of the interactive feeding relationships by which energy and nutrients are transferred between organisms in a community |
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| Chemical process in which a plant cell or protest uses energy from sunlight along with carbon dioxide and water to produce food (glucose) and oxygen. |
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| Group of organisms of the same species living and reproducing in a particular habitat or geographic region |
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| Any organism such as a plant or protest that is able to make food through photosynthesis of chemosynthesis. |
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| A group of organisms that are capable of breeding to produce fertile offspring. |
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