Levels of Organization
Any living thing
What is an organism?
The place where an organism lives
What is habitat?
An organism being hunted
What is a prey?
Any factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease is size
What is a limiting factor?
The behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments
What is adaptations?
The relationship when one organism kills another for food
What is predation?
Where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed (+, 0).
What is commensalism?
The ability of an organism to be able to reproduce faster than another
What is biotic potential?
The interaction between organisms or species where they strive for the same limited resource, like food, water, or territory.
What is competition?
The adaptation that allows certain animals to blend in
What is camouflage?
The relationship in which one organism lives on another and causes it harm (+,-)
What is parasitism?
the smallest level of organization
What is an organelle?
Forests, grasslands, deserts, mountains or polar regions, and aquatic
What are examples of biomes?
Organisms that can make their own food in an ecosystem and are also known as autotrophs.
What is a producer?
The relationship when two animals live together and both of them benefit (+,+)
What is mutualism?
The community and abiotic factors together
What is an ecosystem?
A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to a specific environment may eventually become common in that species through this process
What is natural selection?
A type of succession that creates a habitat as it has to create the soil
What is primary succession?
An organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.
What is a consumer?
A close, prolonged association between two or more different biological species (Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism)
What is symbiosis?