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| organism that requires oxygen |
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| organism thatlives without oxygen |
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| organism that makes its own food |
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| organisms living on the bottom of the ocean |
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| world's major communities |
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| organism that eats "flesh" or meat |
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| organism which must consumes(eats) other organisms |
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| the breakdown of dead organic material by detrivores/saprophites |
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| organic debris(material) from dead organisms; an important source of food in a food web |
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| organism which obtains most of its food from detritus |
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| all the organisms in a particular area and the environment in which they live. |
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| place in which organisms live and the circumstances under which they live |
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| all the interactions of predator and prey, with exchange of nutrients. Connect members of an ecosystem and describes energy flow |
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| region dry for long periods of the summer and freezes in the winter |
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| the place and condition win which an organism lives |
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| organism that eats plants |
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| part of the environment which a speices occupies; condition under which organisms survive and may be affected by other competing organisms |
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| change from gaseous nitrogen to a form useable to plants |
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| organism living in areas of high salt concentration( marine organisms) |
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| element or compund necessary for the health and suyrvival of an organism |
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| organism that eats anything |
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| pertaining to compounds containing carbon |
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| organism living on or within another organism, on which it feeds |
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| organism which causes a disease |
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| organism that swims through the ocean and may riso the surface |
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| free-floating photosynthetic organisms in aquatic systems |
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| free-floating organisms of the ocean or other aquatic systems; zooplankton(animal) or phtoplankton(plant) |
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| organism which hunts and eats other organisms |
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| organism hunted and eaten by a predator |
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| organism which makes energy from inorganic sources; mostly plants |
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| organism which feeds on dead and decaying organisms allowing nutrients to be recycled; fungi/bacteria |
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| one organism benefits, the other(host) is harmed |
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| one partner benefits, the other is not affected |
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| region that undergoes seasonal change in temperature and moisture |
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| region in which climate undergoes little seasonal change in either rainfall or temperature |
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| free-floating organisms in aquatic systems; cannot produce their own food |
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