Relationships
What is a harmful or beneficial interaction or relationship between different people or groups?
symbiosis
Who only eats meat?
Carnivores
What is the source of all energy on earth?
the sun
What is a non- living organism in an ecosystem?
an abiotic factor
What is an animal that hunts for its food?
a predator
What is the relationship where one individual hunts, kills another individual?
predator- prey
Who only eats plants?
herbivores
What are organisms that make their own food and are after the sun in a food chain called?
producers
What is a living organism in an ecosystem?
a biotic factor
What is an animal that is eaten by a predator?
Prey
What is the relationship where both species benefit from each other?
mutualism
Who eats both plants and animals?
omnivores
What is the organism that eats the producer called?
primary consumer
Give an example of an abiotic factor
sun, rocks, soil, weather, water, wind
What is an organism that cannot make its own food?
a consumer
The relationship where one species benefits from another and the other neither benefits or is harmed
commensalism
A teritiary consumer is usually a....
carnivore
What is the organism that eats the primary consumer?
secondary consumer
Give an example of a biotic factor
plants, animals, fungus, and bacteria
What is an organism that makes it own food through photosynthesis?
a producer
What is the relationship where one organism lives in or on another organism that causes harm to the organism?
parasitism
Why do we need predators in our ecosystem?
because without them we would have too much prey
What is the organism that eats the secondary consumer?
tertiary consumer
What is the difference between a population and a community?
a population is one species and a community is multiple species
What is an organism that obtains nutrients from dead organisms around it?