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Interactions
Part of an Ecosystem
Relationships
Ecology
Trivia
100
Interactions between two or more species in an ecosystem or literally "live together" (such as mutualism, parasitism, commensalism)
What is symbiosis?
100
List three examples of Abiotic Factors
What is water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, temperature, terrain, etc.?
100
Animal that hunts for its food.
What is a predator?
100
A group of the same type of organisms that naturally interbreed and produce offspring (i.e. the basic level of biological classification).
What is a species?
100
A series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one.
What is a food chain?
200
The type of symbiosis where there are negative effects between two species who share the same resources within an environment (-,-).
What is competition?
200
List three examples of biotic factors
What is plants, animals, fungi, bacteria
200
Organism that lives on or in a host, but rarely kills it.
What is a parasite?
200
The individuals of the same species that live in a particular area
What is a population?
200
Pre-fix that means "life"
What is bio-
300
The type of symbiosis where one organism is benefited by harming another organism (+,-).
What is parasitism?
300
Any organism that causes dead organisms to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil
What is a decomposer?
300
Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
What is a prey?
300
All populations of a species that live together in a particular area.
What is community?
300
Pre-fix that means "not, without"
What is a-
400
Type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit from their close interaction (+,+).
What is mutualism?
400
Any organism that must obtain food and eat to obtain nutrients.
What is a consumer?
400
An organism that a parasite infects or feeds off of.
What is a host?
400
A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with its environment
What is a ecosystem?
400
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is a omnivore?
500
The type of symbiosis where two species interact in which one organism is benefited where as the other organism is unaffected (+,0).
What is commensalism?
500
The range of of abiotic and biotic conditions it can tolerate (the cottontail rabbit example).
What is a niche?
500
An organism that consumes dead animals for nutrition (example: a vulture consumes a dead animal).
What is a scavenger?
500
The branch of Biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
500
List three different types of symbiotic relationships
What is mutualism, commensalism, competition and parasitism?