Question | Answer |
A living thing | Organism |
A group of similar living things. All in the same species. | Population |
All the different populations that live together in an area. | Community |
All the living and non living things that interact in a particular area. | Ecosystems |
Living parts of an ecosystem. | Biotic |
The non living parts of an ecosystem. | Abiotic |
A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit. | Mutualism |
A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed. | Commensalism |
A behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment. | Adaptations |
The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource. | Competition |
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. | Energy Pyramid |
A series of events in which on organism eats another to gets its energy. | Food Chain |
A pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. | Food Web |
An organism that can make its own food. Plants,and algae. | Producers |
A organisms that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. ie human, dogs, lions. | Consumers |
An orgaism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. ie, Mushrooms, bacteria, worms, snails. | Decomposers |
What type of symbiotic relationship is the following: Vines live on trees without harming the trees. | Commensalism |
What type of symbiotic relationship is the following: Humans become infected with tapeworms. Tapeworms take nutrients from the humans. | Parasitism |
What type of symbiotic relationship is the following:Bees spread plant pollen as they gather nectarr from flowers. | Mutualism |
The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction. | Predator |
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism. | Prey |
What is missing from this food chain?
grass-> rabbit->lynx | decomposer |
How much energy is lost from each stage in the energy pyramid? | 10% |
Soil, temperature, sunlight, water and rocks are examples of what type of factor? | Abiotic factor |
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction? | Host |
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment is ... | Ecology |
What is the original source of almost all the energy in most ecosystems? | sunlight |