Prefixes and Suffixes
Characteristics of Life
Ecological Levels of Organization
Heterotroph /Autotroph
Biotic or Abiotic
100

This prefix means "life."

What is bio?

100

A living thing.

What is an organism?

100

A single living thing that obtains food, water, shelter, grows, and reproduces in its habitat.

What is an organism?

100

An animal that is hunted or eaten by another animal.

What is prey?

100

An insect

What is biotic?

200

The suffix "logy" means this.

What is the study of?

200

Plants get their energy from this.

What is the sun?

200
All populations in an ecosystem.

What is a community?

200

A heterotroph that eats meat.

What is a carnivore?

200

The soil.

What is abiotic?

300

This prefix means meat.

What is carni?

300

Living things are made of one or more of these.

What are cells?

300

Every place on Earth that can support life.

What is a biosphere?

300

An organism that produces its own food.

What is an autotroph or producer?

300

A mushroom.

What is biotic?

400

The suffix that means food.

What is troph?

400

This is how living things spread their genes.

What is reproduction?

400

A group of the same organisms in the same area.

What is a population?

400

A heterotroph that eats meat or plants. An example is a human.

What is an omnivore?

400

The air.

What is abiotic?

500

The suffix "vore" means this.

What is one who eats?

500

This means to maintain a stable internal environment.

What is homeostasis?

500

All biotic and abiotic things in an environment.

What is an ecosystem?

500

A consumer or heterotroph that eats the remains of dead organisms.  Example is a vulture.

What is a scavenger?

500

A rotting log.

What is bioitc?

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