Prefixes and Suffixes
This prefix means "life."
What is bio?
A living thing.
What is an organism?
A single living thing that obtains food, water, shelter, grows, and reproduces in its habitat.
What is an organism?
An animal that is hunted or eaten by another animal.
What is prey?
An insect
What is biotic?
The suffix "logy" means this.
What is the study of?
Plants get their energy from this.
What is the sun?
What is a community?
A heterotroph that eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
The soil.
What is abiotic?
This prefix means meat.
What is carni?
Living things are made of one or more of these.
What are cells?
Every place on Earth that can support life.
What is a biosphere?
An organism that produces its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
A mushroom.
What is biotic?
The suffix that means food.
What is troph?
This is how living things spread their genes.
What is reproduction?
A group of the same organisms in the same area.
What is a population?
A heterotroph that eats meat or plants. An example is a human.
What is an omnivore?
The air.
What is abiotic?
The suffix "vore" means this.
What is one who eats?
This means to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
All biotic and abiotic things in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A consumer or heterotroph that eats the remains of dead organisms. Example is a vulture.
What is a scavenger?
A rotting log.
What is bioitc?