Vocabulary
A community with organisms interacting with each other and nonliving things
What is an ecosystem?
Animal that eats only plants
What is herbivore?
No longer in existence, no living members
What is extinct?
Give an example of a herbivore
Giraffe
Do humans have a big or small impact on ecosystems?
What is a BIG IMPACT
One type of an organism
What is a species?
Animal that eats only meat
What is a Carnivore?
Relationship between organisms in which BOTH organisms benefit - example bees and flowers
What is mutualism?
Give an example of a carnivore
Lion
When both species use the other for survival it is called _______
Things required by an organism to survive
What is resources?
An animal that kills others for food
What is a predator?
relationship in which one organism benefits from an interaction, but the other is unaffected - example sharks and suckerfish
What is commensalism?
Give an example of an omnivore
racoons, skunks, pigs, rats, bears
Give an example of a type of ecosystem we studied
-rainforest, tundras, forest, grassland, desert
Many species of organisms in an area
What is biodiversity?
Animal that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A relationship where one organism benefits from an interaction, but the other suffers - example humans and head lice
What is parasitism?
Give an example of how animals adapt.
- change colors, eating different food, changing from daytime to nighttime, becoming a competitor, comouflage
What example did we study about coevolution?
Newts and Snakes
physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms
Animal that gets eaten by others as food
What is prey?
What is an example of an INVASIVE species?
- Burmese python
Create simple FOOD CHAIN with 3 organisms
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All organisms ______________ for resources to survive.
Compete