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Vocabulary
Adaptations & Survival
Energy Flow
Relationships
Anything Goes!
100
All living and nonliving things in an environment make it up.
What is an ecostystem?
100
The Monarch Butterfly and the Viceroy Butterfly are an example of this.
What is mimicry?
100
All the living things in an ecosystem
What is a community?
100
The fight for limited resources among organisms within an ecosystem
What is competition?
100
Partnerships that are harmful for individuals in the relationship
What is parasitism?
200
All the members of one species in an ecosystem
What is population?
200
Any characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
200
Nonliving things within an ecosystem, such as soil, sunlight, air and water
What are abiotic factors?
200
An example of two organisms living within the same community, but occupying different niches
What is one of the birds being active at night while the other is active during the day?
200
Two major behavioral adaptations that help animals survive seasonal changes in the climate.
What are hibernation and migration?
300
A diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of an ecosystem
What is an energy pyramid?
300
A color, shape or pattern that allows an organism to blend in with its environment.
What is camouflage?
300
The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
300
The physical place where an organism lives and hunts for food.
What is its habitat?
300
An organism that is actually two different organisms - a fungus and an alga.
What is lichen?
400
A resource that restricts population growth within an ecosystem
What is limiting factor?
400
A type of camouflage in which the color of an animal blends with its background.
What is protective coloration?
400
Vultures, raccoons and some crabs eat leftover bodies after they have started to rot.
What are scavengers?
400
A symbiotic relationship that benefits both organisms, such as a pollinator and a flowering plant.
What is mutualism?
400
A network of food chains that have some links in common.
What is a food web?
500
The measure of the size of population and the area that can support it.
What is carrying capacity?
500
Adjustments to internal or external physical structure, such as fur color, long limbs, strong jaws, and the ability to run fast.
What are structural adaptations?
500
The amount of energy that is not transferred from one level to the next in an energy pyramid.
What is 90%?
500
Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are examples of this.
What is symbiosis?
500
In a food web, the arrows always point to them.
What are the eaters?