Symbiotic Relationships
A leech latches onto a human‘s leg and sucks blood from the wound, this weakens the host and can cause disease.
What is Parasitism?
Living organisms in a ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
Single living thing
Shows how energy travels between different organisms
What is a Food web?
Things that are needed for organisms to survive
What are resource?
A squirrel makes a home inside of an oak tree.
What is commensalism?
Non-living parts of an ecosystem.
Two or more of the same organism
An organism that produces its own food, and is usually is at the bottom of the food web
What is a producer?
A crab waves its claws at bigger organisms to scare them away.
What is a adaptation?
A grizzly bear bites down and catches a salmon in its jaws, it then eats the salmon for energy.
What is predation?
The Grizzly Bear hunts and eats King Salmon and Deer.
What are predators?
Groups of DIFFERENT living organisms
What is a community?
An organism that eats producers and is often eaten by another organism
What is a primary consumer?
A shark has darker skin on the top to blend in with the ocean, but has white on the bottom to mimic the sunlight. They use this so they can hunt and kill fish without the fish finding the and fleeing.
What is an adaptation?
A vampire bat sucks blood from a horse and the horse is harmed by this.
What is Parasitism?
The rabbit is hunted by the fox and wolf.
What is prey?
living and non-living factors
What is a ecosystem?
The organism that has no natural predators and is at the top of the food web/chain
What is a tertiary consumer?
A certain role that an organism develops overtime with changed condition.
What is a niche?
A shark is swimming in the ocean, when a remora fish attaches itself to the sharks under belly, and feeds on the leftover food from the shark’s meals, and also can eat old skin and parasites off the shark’s body.
What is mutualism?
The bobcat and the ocelot both live in the same habitat, eat the same foods, and live in the same territorites.
What is competition?
A Lion, Zebra, and Elephant are drinking water from a nearby pond.
What is an ecosystem
Eats the primary consumers, organism can be a carnivore or an omnivore.
What is a secondary consumer?
A area that has all the necessary resources organisms need to thrive.
What is a Habitat?