Interactions
Responses
Relationships
Food Chains
Vocabulary
100
What is a HABITAT?
The place where an organism lives
100
What is a RESPONSE?
Behavior that results from a stimulus
100
Is mutualism good or bad?
GOOD, both animals benefit
100
Draw a food chain with at least three parts. Be sure to label the PRODUCER, CONSUMER and DECOMPOSER.
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100
What are the NONliving parts of an environment called?
ABIOTIC
200
What is a NICHE?
The ROLE or JOB of the organism in the ecosystem
200
Give an example of an INTERNAL STIUMULUS.
Tummy rumbling
200
What happens in COMMENSALISM?
When two species live in, with or on each without hurting each other
200
What is a consumer?
AN ANIMAL THAT FEEDS ON OTHER ANIMALS OR PLANTS
200
What are the LIVING parts of an environment called?
BIOTIC
300
What is a COMMUNITY?
All the POPULATIONS in an area
300
Give an example of an EXTERNAL STIMULUS
Yelling when your hand gets stepped on
300
What happens in PARASITISM? Is is good or bad?
One organism lives as a parasite on another. Bad for one, good for the other.
300
What is a PRODUCER?
A PLANT or ORGANISM THAT MAKES ITS OWN FOOD
300
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
All of the communities AND all the abiotic factors that affect them.
400
List two ABIOTIC factors that can affect an organism
WATER SUN ROCKS AIR
400
INTERNAL or EXTERNAL Stimulus? A snake lunges at a rabbit, the rabbit runs away
EXTERNAL
400
What is a HOST?
The organism that a parasite lives on or in.
400
What is a DECOMPOSER?
SOMETHING THAT BREAKS DOWN or EATS DEAD THINGS
400
What is a FOOD CHAIN?
A way of showing how energy/food passes from one organism to another.
500
List two BIOTIC factors that can affect an organism
ANIMALS FOOD PLANTS
500
INTERNAL or EXTERNAL Stimulus A dog feels hot, so it goes to lay in the shade
INTERNAL
500
What happens in SYMBIOSIS?
Two different organisms live together
500
What eats what? DECOMPOSER PRODUCER CONSUMER
CONSUMER eats PRODUCER DECOMPOSER eats CONSUMER and PRODUCER
500
What processes are involved in the water cycle? (7 answers)
EVAPORATION CONDENSATION TRANSPIRATION RUNOFF PRECIPITATION PERCOLATION ACCUMULATION
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