Vocab 1
An individual animal, plant or single-celled life form.
What is Organism?
An organism that only eats plants.
What is Herbivore?
An organism that eats both plants and meats.
What is Omnivore?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is Producer?
What is a non-living thing an in ecosystem?
What is abiotic?
A model that shows how energy flows between living things.
What is Food Chain?
A consumer that feeds on primary consumers.
What is Secondary Consumer?
A living thing in an Ecosystem.
What is Biotic?
A carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that eats secondary consumers.
What is Tertiary Consumer?
An organism that get their energy by eating plants or other animals.
What is Consumer?
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
What is Habitat?
A major ecosystem made up of many habitats.
What is Biome?
A community of organisms interacting with their environment.
What is Ecosystem?
A type of organism that is threatened by extinction.
What is Endangered?
What is an animal that is endangered?
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An organism that breaks down the remains of dead animals or plant matter into chemical parts in the soil.
What is Decomposer?
Describes the relationship between two organisms living together in an environment.
What is Symbiosis?
The relationship between two organisms that benefit one organism and harms the other one.
What is Parasitism?
What is.... rock, chair, pencil, desk, shoes, etc...
Name a producer, primary, secondary and tertiary consumer.
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The relationship between two organisms that benefit both organisms.
What is Mutualism?
The relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is not harmed.
What is Commensalism?
An animal that eats dead animals and plant materials.
What is Scavenger?
A species is classified as endangered when its population has declined at least ___ % and the cause of the decline is known and when its population has declined at least ___ % and the cause of the decline is not known.
What is 70 % and the cause of the decline is known. What is 50 % and the cause of the decline is not known.
A species is classified as critically endangered when its population has declined at least ____% and the cause of the decline is known and when its population has declined at least ____% and the cause of the decline is not known.
What is 90 % and the cause of the decline is known. What is 80 % and the cause of the decline is not known.