An organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms.

Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms.

Fauna

Flora

The chemical process plants use to make their food with sun, water, and carbon that turns into sugar.

Tiny pores in the bottom of leaves which open and close to allow carbon dioxide to enter and oxygen to leave the leaf.

The substance that makes plants green and is found in chloroplasts.

One of the stiff, narrow tubes that form the framework of a leaf.

Special structures inside a plant that contain chlorophyll and help to make the plant's food.

Plants cells that move water and minerals upward from the roots to every part of a plant.

Moves food (sugar) from the leaves to the rest of the plant and moves in all directions.

System for transporting materials in plants and animals, using a network of tubes.

An ordered arrangement where on animal feeds on the one below it.

The interconnection of food chains within an ecosystem.

A type of animal that has completely died out.

A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce babies. (dogs)

Conditions in the environment that put limits on how an organism can live and controls population.

Living factors in an ecosystem

Non-living parts of an ecosystem

An animal that eats meat.

A category of animals classified by what they eat. (Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, Tertiary Consumers)

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

Animals without a backbone.

Tiny algae and animals thatg float in the water and produce 50% of the oxygen on Earth.

The place in which an animal, plant, or other organism lives.

An animal that eats plants.

An area where fresh water meets the ocean

A gas formed by something that is usually a solid or a liquid at normal room temperature.

Any living thing or oranism.

A group of one or more species living in a certain habitat

A community of plants and animals that interact with their environment.

A group of living things that interact in an ecosystem.

A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region.

The sphere or entire earth where life exists.

CO2 - plants breath in CO2 and breathe out Oxygen.

O - people and animals breathe in Oxygen and breath out CO2.

Plant sweat

The change of state from a liquid to a gas.

The change of state from a gas to a liquid.

Any form of water that falls from clouds. (Rain, snow, sleet, hail)

The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.

The process in which a solid changes directly into a gas.

The relationship that benefits both partners.

Where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

Where one organism benefits but the other one doesn't benefit but is not harmed.