Vocabulary
Abiotic or Biotic?
Symbiotic Relationships
Vocabulary 2
Name the Niche and Habitat
100

An environment that provides everything an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce

Habitat

100

Dissolved Oxygen

abiotic 

100
Bees build a hive in a tree (the tree is unaffected by the hive)

Commensalism

100

An animal that eats other organisms

Predator

100

A bee pollinates the flowers in the meadow that they live in

Niche= pollinating the flowers

Habitat= the meadow

200

All members of one species living in a particular area form  

Population

200

Algae 

Biotic

200

A tick attaches to a coyote, eating their blood and making the coyote sick.

Parasitism

200

An animal that other animals eat

Prey

200

A beer in the Smokey Mountains eats fruits, spreading the seeds whenever it poops.

Habitat= Smokey Mountains

Niche= Spreading seeds

300

All the different populations that live in a certain area

Community

300

Trees

Biotic 

300

A coyote eats the fruits from a cactus, spreading its seeds

Mutualism

300

A change in which an organism or species becomes better suited for its environment

Adaptation 

300

You are hiking in the forest and run across some fungus on a dead log. What is the niche and habitat? 

Habitat= Forest

Niche= Decomposer 

400

all the living and nonliving factors in a particular area

Ecosystem

400

Air temperature

Abiotic

400

A rat leaves behind burrows that the toad lives in

Commensalism

400

The maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can support

Carrying Capacity 

400

You notice a spider has made a large web in the corner of your house. What is its possible niche and habitat?

Habitat= your house

Niche= eat insects 

500

The process in which organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce

Natural Selection

500

Water quality 

abiotic

500

Cactus flowers are pollinated by a bee while the bee drinks the nectar

Mutualism

500

Anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing

Limiting Factor

500

You are snorkling and see some brightly colored coral reefs. What is the habitat and possible niches?

Habitat= Ocean

Niche= protect fish, provide food