Ecosystems
This refers to any living thing.
organism
Word that describes something to do with the tropics.
Tropical
Things that are available and ready to be used to meet needs.
Resources
Organisms that make their own food.
Producers
A simple nonflowering plant that is usually found in or around water.
Alga
A complex system made up of living things that interact with other living things.
Ecosystem
Things that someone or something needs.
Requirements
A simple sugar.
Glucose
Organisms that break down dead organisms.
Decomposers
A mammal belonging to the dolphin family. It is frequently called a killer whale.
Orca
Weather conditions that are typical of a certain region over the years.
Climate
The dying out of an organism.
Extinction
A very small amount of of matter, formed by combining two or more atoms.
Molecule
Organisms that consume other organisms.
Consumers or food consumers
A simple plant that forms a branching or crust-like growth on rocks, tree trunks, or walls.
Lichen
A plant like organism without leaves, flowers, or green coloring.
Fungus
Specific materials (matter) in food that an organism needs so they can survive.
Nutrients
A green substances found in almost all plants.
Chlorophyll
An instruments to see very small things.
Microsocope
The passing of something through a cycle again.
Recycle
Usually very small single celled organisms; they have some plant, animal, or fungus characterisitics.
Protists
To act or operate normally or to perform effectively.
Function
The process by which a green plant uses the sun's energy to make food for the plant.
Photosynthesis
An organism that lives in or on another organism and receives benefits, usually while harming the other organism.
Parasite
The process by which some organisms use chemical energy to make food.
Chemosynthesis