Vocab
Relationships
Food Web
Changes in the Environment
Extra Stuff
100
This is something that is not alive in the environment...it has not been alive, never will be alive, and can't be alive.
What is an abiotic factor?
100
When an animal gets eaten by another animal it is this in a predator/ prey relationship. It is usually smaller than the other and its population is usually bigger.
What is the prey?
100
This is what an organism that eats both plants and animals is called.
What is an omnivore?
100

This is the place where the organisms live and have a niche.

What is the habitat?

100
This occurs when organisms fight for the same limited resources.
What is Competition.
200
This is what you call 2 or more populations that take up the same space. We don't care about the abiotic factors yet.
What is a community?
200
This type of symbiotic relationship has something winning and something unaffected.
What is commensalism?
200
This type of consumer eats only the producer... think herbivore.
What is a primary consumer?
200
When a population goes up it could be because of increased birth rate or _________________.
What is immigration?
200
These organisms eat whatever they can find which usually include the remains of dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
300
This is the role/job an organism has in their environment.
What is its niche?
300

This is the where an organism lives vs. the role or responsibility it has in the ecosystem.

What is habitat vs. niche?

300
The arrows in an food chain or food web point in this direction.
What is towards the thing doing the eating?
300
Something that is part of the environment that keeps a population's size at a level below its full potential is called this.
What is a limiting factor?
300
This is what it is called when an organism leaves a population because their needs are not being met.
What is Emigration?
400
This is what we call an area where the abiotic factors are introduced into a community.
What is an ecosystem?
400
This is a type of symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutalism?
400
These types of organisms break down dead and decaying organisms in an environment. Bacteria, insects, and fungi are all examples.
What is decomposers?
400

These are some of the interactions that living things can have in their environment: 

What is competition, predation, or symbiosis?

400
This is the "top level consumer". In order for it to be considered top level it is a carnivore that does not have many predators. (They also eat secondary consumers)
What is the tertiary consumer?
500
This is what we call the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
What is Ecology?
500
This is a long term relationship that organisms enter into, at least one of the organisms will always benefit.
What is symbiosis?
500
All food chains start with this?
What is a producer?
500
The maximum number of individuals of one species that the environment can support is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
500

These are the four types of ecosystems we have in MN.

What are the Aspen/ Parkland, deciduous forest, coniferous forest, and the prairie/ grassland?

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