Relationships
What is mutualism?
When two organisms of different species both benefit from their relationship.
What is a producer?
Anything that makes its own food.
What is ecology?
The study of organisms and their interactions with their environment.
What is a food chain?
A linear graph showing which animal eats which.
What is symbiosis?
A close relationship between two organisms of different species.
What is an omnivore?
An organism that eats consumers and producers.
What is an organism?
An individual plant, animal, or any living thing.
What are biotic factors?
Everything living or that used to be living in an ecosystem.
What is a host?
If you have a parasite in you, you are its ______.
What is intraspecies competition?
Two poison ivy plant compete for limited light in the forest.
What is a scavenger or decomposer?
An organism that eats decaying biotic factors.
What is infertile?
When an organism cannot reproduce.
What is a food web?
A complex graph showing the exchange of energy in an ecosystem in multiple directions.
What is cooperation?
The general term for when organisms work together.
What is a niche?
The specific way an organism lives and gets food.
What is a consumer?
A predator, herbivore, or omnivore.
What is "predator prey relationship"?
The seesaw swaying of predator and prey populations as one consumes the other.
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is an interdependent relationship?
When both organisms or species need each other to survive.
What is an apex predator?
A predator that is not prey.
What is prey?
A any consumer or predator that is not an apex predator.
What is overpopulation?
When there are too many organisms and their necessary resources run out because of this.
What are abiotic factors?
Rocks, sand, water, air, heat, light are all examples of this in an ecosystem.