Vocabulary
Ecosystems/ Food Chain
Adaptations
Interactions
Wild Card
100
All living and nonliving things.
What is an ecosystem?
100
The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
100
Any chracteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
100
A living thing that hunts and kills other living things for food.
What is a predator?
100
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against predators by its resemblance to an unpleasant animal.
What is mimicry?
200
All the living things in an ecosystem.
What is community?
200
Organisms that use the sun's energy to make sugar and oxygen.
What are producers?
200
Sharks have an excellent sense of smell and sharp teeth to help them catch their prey.
What is structural adaptations?
200
Two birds might live in the same location and eat the same food, but one bird is active at night while the other is active during the day.
What is a niche?
200
Any coloring, shape, or pattern that allows an organism to blend in with its environment.
What is camouflage?
300
Any resource that restricts the growth of populations.
What are limiting factors?
300
Organisms that break down dead plants or animals.
What are decomposers?
300
Some fish swim in schools for protection from predators, while wolves travel in packs so they can hunt large prey.
What is behavioral adaptations?
300
The reliance of organisms on other organisms for their survival.
What is interdependence?
300
A movement of animals to find food, reproduce in better conditions, or find a less severe climate.
What is migration?
400
A relationship between two or more kinds of organisms that lasts over time.
What is symbiosis?
400
Organisms in an energy pyramid that have the least amount of energy.
What is a top level consumer?
400
Cacti have thick, waxy stems that prevent water loss.
What is plant adaptations?
400
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from a spruce tree.
What is parasitism?
400
A rain forest can support a certain number of jaguars.
What is carrying capacity?
500
A symbiotic relationship that benefits one organism without harming the other.
What is commensalism?
500
Where decomposers are located on an energy pyramid.
What is all around it?
500
In winter, the artic fox has a white coat that blends in with the snow.
What is protective coloration?
500
The lichen- a close relationship of a fungus and an alga that live together.
What is mutualism?
500
The struggle for food, water, and space.
What is competition?
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