Vocabulary
An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun or other sources.
What is a producer?
A biome with warm, rainy forests
What is a tropical rainforest?
When 2 organisms live in a relationship where one benefits and the other one is harmed.
What is parasitism?
These are plant eaters.
What are herbivores?
Each organism in a food chain represents this.
What is a trophic level?
troph means food
A model that shows feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A biome with a treeless plain and cold, dry climate
What is tundra?
When 2 or more live together, and both get a benefit out of the living situation.
What is mutualism?
This breaks down the wastes or dead material from both producers and consumers.
What are decomposers?
A factor of living organisms and their interaction with each other.
What is biotic factor?
Bio means life
A system made up of all living organisms interacting with one another and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A biome with grassy land and no extreme heat or cold.
What is temperate grassland?
What is commensalism?
These are meat eaters.
What are carnivores?
Factors that are non-living components of and ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
prefix a means not
An organism that obtains its food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter.
What is a consumer?
The type of biome that these terms represent: permafrost, caribou, polar bears
What is tundra?
The type of symbiosis when a fleas live on a dog.
What is parasitism?
These are both plant and meat eaters.
What are omnivores?
Sunlight, soil type, and weather patterns are examples of this factor.
What are abiotic factors?
An organism's function in its habitat, including its relationship with other organisms.
What is a niche?
The type of biome that these terms represent: praire, steppe (steps), pampas
What is temperate grassland?
In parasitism the organism that is harmed is called the host and the organism that benefits is called this.
What is parasite?
This term means many
What is omni?
A reason why it is difficult to make an estimate of a population of animals in an ecosystem.
What is animal movement?