Interactions in Ecosystems
These are are the two categories used to classify parts of an ecosystem.
What are living things and nonliving things?
This is single word for something that is or was once alive.
What is organism?
Adaptations help organisms do this in their environment.
What is survive?
The young born to an organism are call this.
What is offspring?
This is the first stage in the life cycle of all insects, birds, and amphibians.
What is the egg stage?
Water, sunlight, and soil are all in this category.
What is nonliving things?
These are the three main categories of organisms in a food web.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
An deer has eyes on the sides of its head. This allows the deer to more easily notice these.
What are predators?
This adjective describes traits or behaviors that an animal is born with (genetic).
What is inherited?
When an organism goes through the stages of this, its body completely changes form several times before reaching adulthood.
What is metamorphosis?
A penguin sliding on ice is an example of this type of interaction.
What is living and nonliving?
These organisms do not rely on other organisms for energy.
What are producers?
The shape of an animal's teeth can give us information about this.
What is the animal's diet?
An organism acquires these by observing other organisms or by being taught by themself or others.
What are learned behaviors?
This is the second stage of complete metamorphosis.
What is larva?
A clownfish makes its home in a sea anemone, which is an example of this type of interaction.
What is living and living?
In a desert food web, coyotes prey on jackrabbits, which get energy from scrub grasses. The coyote is this type of consumer.
What is secondary?
A camel has a very tough tongue, mouth and throat and a hard plate on the roof of their mouths. This desert producer is a favorite camel snack.
What is a cactus?
This is another word for a behavior that an organism is born knowing how to do, such as a baby crying.
What is instinct?
Insects that go through this type of metamorphosis look like a smaller version of the adult insect immediately after hatching from an egg.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
Plants, which are living things, interact with a nonliving part of the environment when they use this atmospheric element during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
In a food web, the arrows indicate the direction of this.
What is the flow of energy?
Many species of this type of animal have very large eyes that allow them to see well in low light conditions.
What is nocturnal?
A jaguar's coat can be either spotted or melanistic (all black). We would classify the jaguar's coat color using this term.
What is an inherited trait?
A flea is in this stage of complete metamorphosis when it forms a hard covering around itself and slowly changes form.
What is pupa?