How things live
How things get along.
Adaptation and Survival
How things eat
100
Includes all living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things in an environment, including their interactions with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
100
All living things in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
100
A characteristic that helps an organism to survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
100
The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
200
includes all the members of a single species living in a specific ecosystem.
What is a Population?
200
A relationship between two kinds of organisms over time.
What is symbiosis?
200
An adaptation in which an animal protects itself against predators by blending in with its environment.
What is camouflage?
200
The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
Anything that controls the growth or survival of a population
What is a limiting factor?
300
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits both
What is mutualism?
300
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against predators by its resemblance to another, unpleasant animal.
What is mimicry?
300
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
400
The maximum size an ecosystem can support.
What is the carrying capacity?
400
A relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and benefits from that relationship while the host organism is harmed by it.
What is parasitism?
400
A type of camouflage in which the color of an animal blends in with its background, protecting the animal against predators.
What is protective resemblance?
400
A living thing that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
500
The role of an organism in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
500
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits one without harming the other.
What is commensalism ?
500
A type of camouflage in which the color and shape of an animal blends in with its environment, protecting it from predators.
What is protective resemblance?
500
A diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?
M
e
n
u