Vocab!
A community of interacting organisms and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A group of living things that live in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
When one species benefits, they other isn’t helped or harmed.
What is commensalism?
The first trophic level.
What are plants?
Any non-living items in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
Consumes waste and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
When both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
The second trophic level.
Animals that feed on decaying or dead plants or animals.
What is a scavenger?
Any living organisms in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
When one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
The third trophic level.
What are animals that eat herbivores?
Relationship between two species after “living together” for a long time.
What is symbiosis?
Organisms that use energy from the sun to produce food through photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
The relationship between a child and the lice on their head.
What is parasitism?
The fourth trophic level.
What are animals that eat carnivores?
Organisms that don’t make their own food.
What is a consumer?
When one organism hunts and eats another.
What is predation?
The relationship between oxpecker birds and the giraffes they live on.
What is mutualism?
The trophic level that a rabbit is on.
What is trophic level 2?