Levels of Organization
Any living thing including a plant, animal, bacterium, virus, or fungus.
What is an Organism?
An interaction between two organisms of different species in which one of them feeds on the other organism.
What is Predator - Prey?
A large open area of land covered with grass
What is grassland?
An organism that is capable of producing food through the process of photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
(Vulture)
What is a scavenger?
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
A relationship that is beneficial to BOTH organisms.
(Bees and Flowers)
What is mutualism?
A flat, treeless area of land that is frozen.
What is tundra?
An animal that gets energy by eating plants or other animals for food.
What is a consumer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an Energy Pyramid?
Populations of different species (plants and animals) living and interacting in the same area.
What is a community?
A relationship where one species benefits and the other is not impacted.
(Whales and Barnacles)
What is commensalism?
Land that is flat sandy and VERY HOT.
What is a desert?
An organism such as bacteria or Fungi that break down dead material and recycle nutrients back into the soil.
What is a decomposer?
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
What is a Biome?
A community of plant and animal populations plus the abiotic (non-living) environmental factors.
What is a ecosystem?
A relationship where one species BENEFITS and one species is HARMED
(Dogs and Fleas)
What is parasitism?
A larg forest with heavy rainfall.
What is a rainforest?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ____________ consumers.
What is primary?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
(The caterpillar in the reading about the wasp)
What is a host?
Every place on Earth that can support life.
What is a biosphere?
The struggle between two organisms for the same resources within an environment.
What is competition?
A subarctic forest with lots of trees and snow.
What is taiga?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called _________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
Shows the transfer of energy from one organism to another organism.
What is the food chain?