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 that live in an area. 

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 and living factors in a community are called (2 answers)

What are abiotic and biotic 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. Known as the entire 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

Any close relationship between species

What is symbiosis?

300

The largest number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support

What is carrying capacity?

300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

One individual is known as 

What is an 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 shown. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.

What is an energy pyramid?

400

A complex diagram that show multiple possible feeding relationships

What is a food web?

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 is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
500

Two or more organisms challenge each other 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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