Chapter 2 Vocabulary Marine Biology

Front 1

the process by which a living organism takes energy from its surroundings and uses it to sustain itself, develop, and grow

Back 1

metabolism

Front 2

the process by which an organism uses the energy from the sun to produce its own food

Back 2

photosynthesis

Front 3

organisms that are able to produce their own food

Back 3

autotrophs

Front 4

organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain it from other organisms

Back 4

heterotrophs

Front 5

process by which food is converted into useable energy for life functions

Back 5

respiration

Front 6

the tendency of living organisms to control or regulate changes in their internal environment

Back 6

homeostasis

Front 7

movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration

Back 7

diffusion

Front 8

- the disfussion of water across a selectively permeable membrane

Back 8

osmosis

Front 9

organism that allows its internal concentration of salts to change in order to match the external concentration of salts in the surrounding water

Back 9

osmoconformer