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Ecosystems
Energy Transfer
competition
miscellaneous
100
A single organism in an environment.
What is an individual?
100
Organisms that make their own food, that is, plants.
What is a producer?
100
An animal that hunts another animal.
What is a predator?
100
An example of a first level consumer.
What is an organism that eats plants?
200
All populations of organisms that live together in an environment.
What is a community?
200
Organisms that need to eat other organisms in order to survive .
What is a consumer?
200
Different kinds of animals that have a long-term relationship of mutual benefit. The name of this type of relationship.
What is symbiosis?
200
An example of a second level consumer.
What is an organism that eats plant-eating organisms?
300
All of the same kind of individuals that live in the same place.
What is a population?
300
A way to show how energy is passed from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
300
A behavior that is inherited, not learned.
What is an instinct?
300
An example of an animal that eats animal-eating animals.
What is a third level consumer?
400
The place where a population of organisms live.
What is its habitat?
400
An organism that feeds on dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
A behavior that that is taught from parents to their offspring.
What is learned behavior?
400
The term used to describe a community of organisms and its physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Each population has a certain role. For example, eagles hunt mice during the day and owls hunt mice at night.
What is a niche?
500
Consumers who eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
500
An adaptation that allows an organism to blend into its environment to hide from predators.
What is camouflage?
500
Coal, oil, and natural gas are all types of this energy source.
What are fossil fuels?