Vocabulary
Ecology
Energy Transfer
Interactions within Communities
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
100
Patterns and coloration that help organisms blend in with their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
100
The interactions of organisms with one another and the environment.
What is Ecology?
100
Feeding relationship among many organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
Organism harmed in a parasitic relationship.
What is a host?
100
Along with energy from the sun, these two substances are the starting materials for photosynthesis.
What is Carbon Dioxide and Water?
200
A cell process that uses energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
Cutting down trees and clearing large areas of shoreline would have this kind of effect on an ocean habitat.
What is negative (population decrease)?
200
These essential parts of a healthy ecosystem make resources available to producers by breaking down waste materials.
What are decomposers?
200
Quantity of light, range of temperatures, and soil composition are examples of this kind of factor.
What is Abiotic?
200
In photosynthesis light energy is converted into this kind of energy and stored in the bonds of a glucose atom.
What is chemical energy?
300
An animal that eats both plants and other organisms.
What is an omnivore?
300
The place where an organism usually lives.
What is habitat?
300
Another name for a secondary consumer.
What is tertiary?
300
An example of this symbiotic relationship would be A bird finding an existing hole in a tree and building a nest in it?
What is COMMENSALISM?
300
A substance produced during cellular respiration.
What is Carbon Dioxide, Water, or ATP.
400
Molecules from which organisms get energy to perform daily activities.
What is ATP?
400
All the living and non-living things in a specific area.
What is an ecosystem?
400
What arrows in a food web represent.
What is energy transfer?
400
Hummingbirds and flowers have a __________ relationship because both the flower and the hummingbird are helped.
What is mutualistic?
400
Part of the cell that captures energy from sunlight,
What is chlorophyll?
500
Organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
What are species?
500
A variation of living organisms from tiny bacteria to blue whales.
What is biodiversity?
500
The primary consumer is found here in a food chain.
What is next to the producer?
500
For this reason, trees in a forest do not grow very close to one another.
What is competition?
500
Cellular respiration takes place in this organelle.
What is Mitochondria?
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