Life Science Vocabulary Review

Microscopic organisms that often play a role in the decay of living things.

• Ecosystem

• Endangered

• Bacteria

• Photosynthesis

A relationship between two different kinds of organisms in which one organism is helped and the other is not harmed

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

An interaction between two organisms of unlike species in which one of them acts as predator that captures and feeds on the other organism that serves as the prey.

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

The relationship between a parasite and its host, involving benefit to the parasite and harm to the host

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a relationship between two different kinds of organisms in which both organisms benefit

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

An organism that makes its own food

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

An individual living thing, such as a plant, an animal, or a bacteria.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Species

A group of organisms of the same kind that can mate and produce offspring like themselves.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4