Levels of Organization
An individual living in an ecosystem
What is an organism?
All food chains begin with
What is the sun?
what a predator may hunt and eat for food
What is a prey?
two organisms want the same resource
What is competition?
a population grows too large and it mat damage the environment or ecosystem
What is overpopulation?
Groups or individuals of the same species are
What is a population?
The organism that eats plants is called
What is an herbivore?
All of the living resources
What are biotic factors?
One organism is harmed and one helped
What is parasitism?
an organism may disappear forever
What is extinction?
All the different populations in an area
What is a community?
The organism that eats plants and animals is called
What is an omnivore?
All of the nonliving resources
What are abiotic factors?
one organism hunts and another is hunted
What is predator/prey?
a population at risk of extinction
What is endangered?
the interaction of living and nonliving
What is an ecosystem?
The organism that eats only meat is called
What is a carnivore?
the main two resources all producers need
sun and water
both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
a species at risk but not yet endangered
What is threatened?
The sum of all living things on Earth
What is the biosphere?
The top of the chain
What is an apex predator?
a lack of water due to no rain
What is a drought?
One organism helped and one is neutral
What is commensalism?
the endageered species Mrs. Dillon saw in Kenya on safari?
What is the white rhinoceros?