Living and Non-Living Things Vocabulary
Living factors of the environment
What is biotic factors.
A diagram showing a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients.
What is a food chain?
Living things need what 3 things?
What is food, water, shelter?
An organism that can make it own food.
What is a producer?
A relationship where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
non-living factors in the environment
A diagram showing a more realistic way energy and matter cycle through an ecosystem consisting of many overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
What is consumer?
A relationship where one organism kills another for food or nutrients.
What is predation.
an environmental factor that causes the population to stop growing or to decrease.
What is a limiting factor?
Organisms that eat the first-level consumers.
What is a secondary consumer.
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size.
What is a limiting factor?
An organism that breaks down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning the raw materials to the ecosystem.
What is a decomposer?
A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped or harmed.
What is commensalism?
A community of organisms and their abiotic (non-living) environment.
What is Ecosystem?
An organism that eats the second-level consumer.
What is a tertiary (3rd level) consumer?
The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
What is population Density.
When tow species share a niche, one of their populations might be affected as it struggle to survive as they use the same limited resources.
What is competition?
A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it.
What is parasitism?
more than one member of the same species living in the same habitat and sharing the same resources
What is a population.
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves form one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other things from its environment that it needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is resources?
Adaptions that include how an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats. and what other organisms eat it is a part of the that organism's adaptation that help them fill specific roles or functions?
What is niche?
Any relationship in which two species live closely together.
What is symbiosis?