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TRMS Interactions
Interactions of Living Things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you call the study of how different organisms interact with one another and their environment? | Ecology |
| What are the living parts of the environment known as? | Biotic |
| The non-living parts of the environment are know as____. | Abiotic |
| What are the ecological levels of organization from smallest to largest? | Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome |
| What do you call an organism that uses sunlight to make food? | Producer/Autotroph |
| What do you call an organism that cannot produce their own food and needs to eat other organisms? | Consumer/Heterotroph |
| What do you call an organism that eats only plants? | Herbivore |
| What do you call an organism that eats only animals? | Carnivore |
| What do you call an organism that eats both plants and animals? | Omnivore |
| What do you call an organism that eats dead plants and animals? | Scavenger |
| What do you call an organism that breaks down dead organisms and returns the nutrients to the soil? | Decomposer |
| What do you call a close, long-term relationship between two or more organisms where at least one organism benefits? | Symbiosis |
| What do you call a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit? | Mutualism |
| What do you call a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected? | Commensalism |
| What is the name of the relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed? | Parasitism |
| What do you call the organism that benefits in a parasitic relationship? | Parasite |
| What do you call the organism that is harmed in a parasitic relationship? | Host |
| What do you call an organism that kills and eats all or part of another organism ( prey )? | Predator |
| What do you call the organism that is killed and eaten by another organism ( predator )? | Prey |
| What do you call the ability to blend in with your surroundings? | Camouflage |
| What do you call substances that organisms release to defend themselves from predators? | Defensive Chemicals |
| What do you call organisms that are brightly colored to warn predators that they are poisonous? | Warning coloration |
| What do you call it when an organism looks very similar to another organism and this similarity helps them survive? | Mimicry |
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