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What is the vocabulary term for the natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism?
Habitat
________________ make their own food.
Plants
Food chains always start with a __________
Producer.
_____________ is the fight between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same resources.
Competition
All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is called a _______________
Population
A food chain shows who eats whom. A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem.
Food chains show pictures of the living things, joined by _________
arrows.
What is the interaction in which one organism kills and eats another to gain nutrients for survival?
Predation
All the different species of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is called a _____________.
community.
_______________ are consumers. They feed on other living things.
Animals
Temperature, light, air, water, soil, and climate are all __________ parts of the environment.
abiotic (non-living)
Mututalism
What are the 4 levels of organization from smallest to largest?
individual, population, community, ecosystem
Herbivores are _____________ consumers. They only feed on plants.
primary consumers
To show more than one food chain in an ecosystem we use food _________
webs.
Define the term parasitism
One organism lives on or inside another organism, causing harm to it.
What type of organism interaction is the following example? **Need the specific vocabulary term
Shrimp are immune to the stinging tentacles of the sea anemone and hide by it for protection.
Commensalism
What is the definition of a decomposer?
Organisms that break down dead plants or animal matter, making nutrients available.
What flows from one trophic level, or level of the food chain, to the next?
Energy
Define the term commensalism
One species benefits, and the other is neither helped nor harmed.