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| the physcial, or non-living enviroment in which an organism lives. |
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| An organism that is capabel of producing its own food: also known as a producer |
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| The division of the ocean enviroment composed of the ocean bottom |
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| A combination of biological, chemical and physical processes that recyle nutriets within the bioshphere |
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| The living portion of an organisms enviroment |
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| having the ablility to use the energy from chemical reactions to construct organic food molecues |
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| A symbiotic realtionship in which one organism bemnefits while the other is neither harmed nor benefited |
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| the process by which the less sucessful competior for a limited resoucre is driven to extinction |
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| Organic matter such as animal wastes and bits of decaying tissue |
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| an animal that botains most of its bou heatfrom its surroundings |
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| an animal that maintains its boyd temp by gernrating heat internally |
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| An organism that relies on other organisms for food |
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| an esplantaion for observed events that can be tested by esperiments |
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| the sum of all of the chemical reactions that occuring in living cells |
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| a symbotic realtionship in which boht organism benifits |
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| The divison of the marine enviroment composed of the oceans water |
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| An intimate living arragenment between two differnt kinds of organisms |
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| A boyd of obsercation and their experimental suports that have stood the test of time |
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