Vocabulary
A place to live is called a
habitat
Eat only plants
herbivores
God-given basic knowledge and skills an animals needs for survival
instinct
Food, water, protection from consumers, and shelter are the four basic needs of all living things.
Dead things and wastes are eaten by
scavengers
Organisms that take energy from the sunned change it into a form other organisms can use
producers
Eat both plants and animals
omnivores
The plant or animal that a parasite lives on
host
One thing that happens to an animal during hibernation
breathing/heart rate slows down
body temperature drops
uses little energy
deep sleep
Each living member of an ecosystem
individual
All living things that depend on producers for food
consumers
Eat only other consumers
carnivores
An organism that lives on or in another organism and takes food from that organism
parasite
Is migration an instinct or learned behavior
instinct
The nonliving part of an ecosystem
environment
Populations can share a habitat, but a ______ is unique to only population.
niche
A food chain always begins with
a producer
A special partnership in which two species interact with each other over a long period of time
symbiosis
Symbiosis where one partner is helped, and the other is neither helped or harmed
commensalism
An organisms specific job, or function, in the ecosystem
niche
All the different species that live in a particular ecosystem
community
The second link of a food chain is usually a
herbivore
Type of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit
mutualism
Symbiosis in which one partner is helped, and the other is harmed
parasitism
Members of the same species in an ecosystem
population