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Interactions of Living Things

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