Vocabulary
An animal that only eats plants is considered a/an
Herbivore
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
Predation
an individual living thing
Organism
What is considered a series of overlapping food chains?
Food Web
The study of how organisms interact in the environment.
Ecology
An organism's ability to blend in is also known as
camouflage
One animal benefits and the other is harmed
Parasitism
Organisms of the same species that live in an area at the same time
Population
What does "fittest" in survival of the fittest mean?
The organism most compatible to its environmental surroundings
All the nonliving things in the environment.
Abiotic factors
A diagram that shows how much energy passes through a food web.
Energy Pyramid
Organism relationships where at least one organism benefits.
Symbiotic
All the different types of species in a common location
Community
What process produces oxygen, and what organisms perform this process?
Photosynthesis and only plants
A very long time ago there were long and short neck giraffes. Today we only see long neck giraffes. What does this process represent?
Natural Selection/Survival of the Fittest
Who can perform cellular respiration and how do you know?
Both plants and animals, because they both have mitochondria
The type of organism at the beginning of a food chain
Producers
A place that supplies all of an animal's needs.
Habitat
The process of changing glucose into energy.
Cellular Respiration
Who can perform photosynthesis and what is needed for this function?
Only plants and chloroplast is needed
Predictable changes in a community over time.
Ecological Succession
In this relationship, one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
Commensalism
All the living and nonliving things in an area
Ecosystem
In a certain area, the color of the bark on the trees changed from white to black due to pollution.
How would this effect the white and black moths present in the area?
Black moth populations would increase
White moth populations would decrease
What form of energy do plants take in?
Energy from the Sun