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 or chemosynthesis.
What are autotrophs?
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

Something like a worm or bacteria that breaks down organic matter

What is a decomposer

200
Non-living factors in a community are called..
What is abiotic factors?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200
Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
200
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
200

Something that hunts another animal

What is a predator?

300
Something that only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
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

This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.

What is an energy pyramid?

400
Two or populations of species.
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

Result if a producer is wiped out of a food web... and WHY

Loss of consumers because there are no organisms to initially transform energy from the sun into a usable form

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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