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A system of animals that use each other as a resource so they can survive. (Interconnecting food chains that track the movement of energy.)
Food web
A competition between people from the same species.
Intraspecific competition
An organism that breaks down organic material.
Decomposer.
A relationship between two different organisms within an ecosystem.
Symbolic Relationship
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A niche is a part that an organism plays in an organism.
niche
Organisms that are able to be self-sufficient/make their own food, and stuff like that.
Producer
Two species who benefit from each other.
Mutualism
Two organisms rely on one another.
Interdependent relationships
jumanji or scooby doo?
jumanji!
Visual representation of who consumes who and tracks the flow of energy through a system.
Food Chain.
An organism that is able to transform solar energy into chemical energy. (aka can make their own food.)
Consumer/ heterotroph
A symbiotic relationship where one organism is benefited, and the other is unaffected.
Commensalism
On a food web and chain, what do the arrows mean?
Where the energy is flowing.
A home where a species normally stays.
habitat
An organism that only eats plants.
Herbivore
A relationship between organisms where one organism eats another. (Predator does the eating, prey is the food.)
Predator Prey Relationship
On a food web and chain, where does the energy start from?
The sun.
A specific competition ( fighting over resources ) between people or a species.
Interspecific competition
An organism that only eats flesh. An example of flesh is fish.
Carnivore
A symbiotic relationship where one organism is getting its nutrients and energy from another organism. (host) One organism benefits, the other is negatively affected.
Parasite- Host
What will happen if certain organisms are taken out of the equation?
One population will decrease, and the other will increase.
(ex. If the prey population decreases, know what is going to happen to the predator population.)