Vocabulary
The place a plant or animal lives
What is a habitat?
A group of organisms of the same species in the same area
What is a population?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
Between abiotic and biotic, a mushroom is...
What is biotic factor?
An organism that hunts, kills, and eats another organism for energy & nutrients
What is a predator?
The physical, nonliving/ never living parts of an organism's environment that affect its life
What are abiotic factors?
The portions of Earth that support life.
What is the biosphere?
Between abiotic and biotic, algae is...
What is a biotic factor?
This is the term for the organism that benefits from parasitism.
What is a parasite?
All the living organisms that inhabit an environment
What are biotic factors?
Any living thing that is made of cells, uses energy, reproduces, responds, grows, and develops
What is a organism?
Between abiotic and biotic, soil is...
What is an abiotic factor?
In this relationship, I teach hard all week and every single student passes their CFA tomorrow.
What is mutualism?
An organism's total way of life.
What is a niche?
All the populations of different species in the same area
What is a community?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
Between abiotic and biotic, temperature is...
What is an abiotic factor?
The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
Populations of living things interacting with each other & the abiotic components of that area
What is an ecosystem?
Ants mistake some caterpillars for their young. They protect & allow them to live in their colony.
What is both habitat and niche?
In this relationship, barnacles attach themselves to whales, gaining access to nutrient-rich water while the whale swims without being affected.
What is commensalism?