Characteristics of Living things
The characteristic of life represented by a baby giraffe getting taller
What is growth?
In this type of relationship both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
This type of organism must always begin the food chain.
What is a producer?
An organism which does not have the 7 characteristics of life.
What is a non-living thing?
Another word for living
The characteristics of life shown by elephants eating leaves or wolves eating meat.
What is nutrition?
A tapeworm takes nutrients from a dog. This shows what type of relationship?
What is parasitism?
First level consumers or primary consumers eat this type of organism.
What is a producer?
A rock is considered this.
What is non-living (abiotic)?
Another word for non-living
What is abiotic?
The characteristic of life represented when a plant bends its leaves and stem toward the sun
What is movement?
Crocodiles often allow small birds to enter their mouths to pick bits of food from between their teeth. Both the crocodile and the birds benefit. This shows this type of relationship.
What is mutualism?
Bacteria, worms and fungi are examples of these.
What are decomposers?
A lily pad is considered to be this.
What is living (biotic)?
An organism which can make its own food
What is a producer?
The characteristic of life shown by you (a human) breathe in oxygen, and breathe out carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
Barnacles grow on whales. Whales give the barnacles a place to live but the barnacles do not help or harm the whale. This type of relationship is called...
What is commensalism?
If the rabbit population was removed from the food chain: grass —› rabbit —› fox, then this would be expected to occcur to the grass population.
What is increase?
A virus is considered to be this.
What is non-living?
*There is some debate as to whether or not virus are living. Becasue they cannot reproduce without a host cell, most scientists will considered a virus to be non-living.
An organism which cannot make its own food and must eat other things.
What is a consumer?
The characteristic of life shown when a bacterium, or bacterial cell, divides in to two new bacterial cells
What is reproduction? (This is asexual reproduction- mitosis)
Name the three types of symbiotic relationships.
What are parasitism, mutualism and commensalism?
This is the ultimate source of energy for all food chains.
What is the sun?
In order to be considered a living thing, it must have this.
What are the 7 characteristics of living things? (Movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition)
These are the three types of consumers.
What are herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore?