Vocabulary
Food Webs
Relationships
Vocab 2
Misc.
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 the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
100
What type of relationship does algae and coral have together?
What is a mutualistic relationship?
100
An animal is _________ if it dies out completely.
What is extinct.
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200
What type of relationship does a tomato hornworm caterpillar and wasps have?
What is parasitism.
200
An animal is ____________ when there are only a few amount of those animals left in the world.
What is endangered.
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300
What type of relationship do sharks and remoras have together?
What is commensalism.
300
An animal that is hunted and killed by another animal for food.
What is prey.
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
What type of relationship do ticks have with dogs?
What is parasitism.
400
What group of organisms make up the largest part of the energy pyramid?
What are producers/plants.
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
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
What type of relationship does stomach/intestines and bacteria have?
What is mutualistic.
500
Camouflage and coloration are two examples of _________ that organisms have in order to be suited for their environment.
What are adaptations.
500
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
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