Vocabulary
Food Chains & Webs
Ecosystem Levels
Community Interactions
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100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100

These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis.

What are producers?

100
Two or more organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
100
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
200
Non-living factors in a community are called..
What is abiotic factors?
200

These organisms eat only meat.

What is a carnivore?

200

What is the correct order of the levels of an ecosystem (smallest to largest)?

What is OPCE?

200
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
200

An organism that is brought to an area it is not originally from?

What is an introduced species?

300
Something that only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
300

The matter and energy lines in a food web point in what direction?

What is towards the predator?

300
One individual
What is a organism?
300
A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400

These organisms are typically have no predators. They are called ____________?

What is a top predator or top level consumer?

400

Two or more populations.

What is a community?

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
400
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500

What do the arrows in a food web show?

What is energy and matter?

500
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Two or more organisms competing for the same resource.
What is competition?
500
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
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