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WHATCG? L3-7
Where Have All The Creatures Gone? Lessons 3-7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Food Chain | A series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and by being eaten. |
| Food Web | The pattern of overlapping feeding relationships or food chains among the various organisms in an ecosystem. |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in an area, along with their nonliving environment. |
| Invasive Species | Any non-native species that disturbs the ecosystems in which it has been introduced and may harm other living things and the environment. |
| Native Species | Plants and animals that originated and live in an area without any human intervention. |
| Biotic Factor | A living part of an organism's habitat. |
| Abiotic Factor | A nonliving part of an organism's habitat. |
| Predator | The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction |
| Prey | An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism in a predation interaction |
| Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| Indirect Interaction | The transfer of energy from one organism to another but transmitted by a third organism |
| Direct Interaction | The transfer of energy from one organism to another organism. |
| Competition | When two or more organisms fight for resources (food, space, shelter, mate). |
| Energy Flow | The movement or transfer of energy from one trophic level to another in an ecosystem. |
| Parasitism | A type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on, or in a host and harms it. |
| Host | The thing that the parasite lives in or on and harms it. |
| Symbiosis | Any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms |
| Commensalism (+/0) | A type of symbiosis between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed. |
| Mutualism (+/+) | A type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together. |