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Symbiotic Relationships
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The animal that gets eaten by a predator.
What is prey
100
All of the living parts of an ecosystem?
What are biotic factors
100
When one organism gets a benefit but the other is hurt or weakened.
What is parasitism
100
An animal that hunts its food.
What is a predator
100
An organism that makes its own food using the sun's energy
What is a producer?
200
All of the members of the SAME species in an ecosystem
What is population
200
An animal that eats other living things
What is a consumer
200
A relationship where one organism gets a benefit and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism
200
A coyote eats a rabbit. Which direction would the arrow point to show this?
What is from the rabbit TO the coyote
200
In a parasitic relationship, this is the organism that is getting the benefit.
What is a parasite
300
All of the non living things in an ecosystem
What is abiotic factors?
300
An animal that eats meats, fruits, and plants.
What is an omnivore
300
A remora swims under a shark and gets protection and food scraps. What kind of relationship is this?
What is commensalism
300
In a balanced ecosystem, what should you have more of...grass for herbivores or small animals for carnivores?
What is grass for herbivores (primary producer)
300
All of the biotic factors and living things that are in an ecosystem
What is a community
400
An organism that feeds off dead plants and animals in an ecosystem.
What is a scavenger?
400
All of the living organisms in an area and their abiotic surroundings
What is an ecosystem
400
In a parasitic relationship, this is the organism that is harmed or weakend.
What is a host.
400
Wolves will usually kill which type of elk?
What is the old, sick, injured, etc
400
the largest number of organisms that an area can support
What is carrying capacity
500
These organisms rot and decay remains that have been left behind. Examples include mushrooms and bacteria.
What are decomposers?
500
The study of an ecosystem's living things and how they interact with their surroundings
What is ecology?
500
The name of the organism in your science book who was a host to the wasp eggs
What is a tomato hornworm
500
These are the top predators that form the highest level of the energy pyramid.
What is a tertiary consumer
500
Blending in with your background by pretending to be something else, like a leaf or a twig
What is cryptic coloration
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