Vocabulary
Balance
Interaction of Organisms
Humans
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100
This is an organism that takes away something from a relationship and is not harmed.
What is a parasite?
100
These are the things that plants and animals need to grow and live.
What is food, water, living space, shelter, light, and air.
100
Two groups of birds fighting for the same nesting site is an example of this.
What is competition?
100
These are the waste products that humans put into the air, water and ground.
What is pollution?
100
This is what an animal is called when a species is very few in number.
What is endangered?
200
This is the organism in a relationship that is harmed?
What is a host?
200
This might happen when there is not enough food in an ecosystem to feed a species.
What is die or move to another area.
200
This is how owls and hawks share resources and reduce competition.
What is hunt at different times of day. The owl hunts at night and the hawk hunts during the day.
200
These manmade things can release harmful chemicals into the air.
What are automobiles or factories?
200
This is what an animal is called when there are no more of a species left alive.
What is extinct?
300
These are substances that are harmful to humans and other organisms?
What is hazardous waste?
300
This is what happens to the prey of a species that is large in size.
What is decrease.
300
The plover eating leeches from the crocodile's teeth is an example of this type of relationship.
What is helping.
300
This washes chemicals off the land and into the water.
What is rain?
300
This is it what it is called when two or more species must use the same limited resources.
What is competition?
400
This is the gradual change in an ecosystem?
What is succession?
400
Ecosystems are healthy when all their are parts are this way.
What is balanced?
400
A tree providing moss a place to grow, and the tree not suffering any harm is an example of this type of relationship.
What is living side by side.
400
This sometimes spills into the oceans from drilling or spilling.
What is oil?
400
This is all the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
500
The repairing of land once it has been mined.
What is land reclamaiton?
500
This is what happens to a group of prey when its predator is few.
What is increase?
500
A deer tick on a dog is an example of this type of relationship.
What is harmful?
500
This is removed from the ground during the process of strip mining.
What is coal?
500
This is a trait that helps a living thing survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?