The Basics of Animal Interactions
When one organism harms an organism and is happy from the interaction while the organism that was harmed is affected by it. (đ - âšī¸)
Parasitism
An animal that naturally preys on others.
Predator
All of the organisms that need water, space to live, air, and sometimes soil and sunlight.
Biotic Factors
A single living thing, it represents as the smallest and most specific level of ecosystem levels.
An organism
What is the more complex type of a Food Chain?
A Food Web
When both organism are happy after an interaction. (đ - đ)
Mutualism
Organisms that make food from the sun.
Producers
The non-living things that abiotic organisms compete for.
Abiotic Factors
All of the organisms of one species in an area.
A population
An animal that was killed by another animal for food.
Prey
The interaction between animals when one organism is happy, while the other organism is not affected. (đ - đ)
Commensalism
Animals that eat producers.
Primary Consumers
Something that LIMITS life/ SLOWS population. (Ex. a disease has infected plants.)
Limiting Factors
Something that is made up of all the populations in the area.
Communities
Species with the same niches compete ___ often. Species with different niches compete ___ often.
More, less
When one organism kills another organism for food, etc. (đđ¤ - đĩ)
Predation
Animals that eat primary consumers.
Secondary Consumers
The action between organisms when they compete with populations or among species for resources.
Competition
The group of living and non-living things in an area.
An ecosystem
The quality and quantity of biotic and abiotic factors has a major effect on ???
Populations
When two organisms compete for a need (water, food, shelter, etc.)
Competition
Animals that eat secondary consumers. Also the most powerful.
Tertiary Consumers
A role that an organism has in its habitat. It also includes how an organism obtains food, what food it eats, which organisms are its predators, etc.
A niche
The way ecosystem levels can be organized from least specific to most specific in a ranked order.
The Ecosystem Hierarchy
Which one is the correct way to transfer food in a Food Chain/Food Web?
1. Rabbit â> Berries
2. Berries â> Rabbit
3. Berries <â> Rabbit
4. Rabbit <â> Berries
Number 2 is the correct answer