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What is the vocabulary term for the natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism?

Habitat

100

________________ make their own food.

Plants

100

Food chains always start with a __________

Producer.

100

_____________ is the fight between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same resources. 

Competition

200

All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is called a _______________

Population

200
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

A food chain shows who eats whom. A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem.

200

Food chains show pictures of the living things, joined by _________

arrows.

200

What is the interaction in which one organism kills and eats another to gain nutrients for survival?

Predation

300

All the different species of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is called a _____________.

community.

300

_______________ are consumers. They feed on other living things.

Animals

300

 Temperature, light, air, water, soil, and climate are all __________ parts of the environment.

abiotic (non-living)

300
What is the type of interaction when two species interact, and both of them benefit?

Mututalism

400

What are the 4 levels of organization from smallest to largest?

individual, population, community, ecosystem

400

Herbivores are _____________ consumers. They only feed on plants.

primary consumers

400

To show more than one food chain in an ecosystem we use food _________

webs.

400

Define the term parasitism

One organism lives on or inside another organism, causing harm to it. 

500

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

500

What is the definition of a decomposer?

Organisms that break down dead plants or animal matter, making nutrients available.

500

What flows from one trophic level, or level of the food chain, to the next?

Energy

500

Define the term commensalism

One species benefits, and the other is neither helped nor harmed.