Vocabulary
Energy
Ecology
Ecosystems
Misc.
100

The specific place within an ecosystem that an organism lives.

What is a habitat?

100

These types organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis and are the base of the food chain.

What are producers or autotrophs ?

100

A physical or behavioral trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce

What are adaptations?

100

The non-living parts of an ecosystem

What is abiotic?

100

The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.

What is a host?

200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200

These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.

What is primary?

200

The concept in which certain adaptations are best suited for the environment so they are more likely to survive and pass on their traits to their offspring.

What is natural selection?

200
An individual species is known as this. 

What is an organisms? 

200

An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.

What is prey?

300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300

These organisms are consumers that eat only other consumers.

What are carnivores?

300

The fox is this type of consumer


What is carnivore?

300

A group of zebra is known as this.

What is a population?

300

A struggle between 2 organisms of the same OR different species to survive. 

What is competition?

400

An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms.

What is a decomposer?

400

The amount of energy that is moves from one level of an energy pyramid to another. 

What is 10%?

400

This is the omnivore.

What is the bird?

400
A biotic or abiotic thing an organism needs to live, grow and reproduce

What is a resource?

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500

A relationship between 2 different organisms in which at least one benefits.

What is a symbiosis?

500

An organism that gets its energy from both plants and animals

What is an omnivore?

500

The way the arrows would go if we drew in the sun in this food web. 

What  is an arrow from sun to the tree? 

500

Natural disasters like a hurricane or tornado are example of this kind of limiting factor.

What are density INDEPENDENT? 

500

The maximum population size that can be supported in a ecosystem based on the resources available is known as this.

What is the carrying capacity?