Symbiosis
What is Mutualism?
What is Both species benefit
The definition of an organism that kills and eats another organism for food.
What is Predator
The type of interaction where two or more organisms fight for the same limited resource, such as food, water, or territory.
What is Competition?
A model that shows many overlapping feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
An organism that produces its own food using sunlight.
A term used when a Honeybee feeds on a flower's nectar while pollinating the flower?
What is Mutualism
The organism that is hunted, killed, and consumed by a predator.
What is Prey
Competition between two organisms of the same species.
What is Intraspecific competition?
In a food chain or web, what do the arrows represent?
What is the flow of energy?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms to recycle nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
What is Commensalism?
What is One organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
A form of predation where the "prey" is a plant or algae.
What is Herbivory/Herbivore
Two species that live in the same habitat and have very similar niches, causing competition.
What is Niche Overlap?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain?
An organism that only eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
What is Parasitism?
What is One organism benefits by feeding on another, harming the host.
This term describes an animal that is both a predator (eaten by something else) and prey (eats other organisms).
What is Secondary Consumer
This principle states that two species competing for the exact same resources cannot coexist.
What is the Competitive Exclusion Principle?
These organisms are responsible for breaking down dead organic matter.
What are decomposers?
The unique role or position an organism has in its habitat.
What is a niche?
What is Symbiosis?
What is A close, long-term interaction between two different species living together
Because they feed at the top of the food chain, predators are usually found at this high trophic level.
What are tertiary (or quaternary) consumers?
An ecological relationship in which both species are harmed.
What is Competition?
The primary source of energy for almost all food webs.
What is the sun?
A species that has a disproportionately large effect on its ecosystem relative to its abundance.
What is a keystone species?