B16 5.2 interactions among living things

Question 1

food chain

Answer 1

the path of energy in food from one organism to another

Question 2

food web

Answer 2

the overlaping food chains in an ecosystem

Question 3

herbivore

Answer 3

an animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers

Question 4

caronavore

Answer 4

an animal that eats another animal

Question 5

predator

Answer 5

an animal that hunts other animals for food

Question 6

prey

Answer 6

a living thing that is hunted for food

Question 7

scavenger

Answer 7

a meat-eating animal that feeds on the remains of of dead animals

Question 8

omnivore

Answer 8

an aniamal that eats both plants and animals

Question 9

symoboisis

Answer 9

a relationship between two kinds of organisms that lasts over time

Question 10

mutualium

Answer 10

a relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits both

Question 11

parasitism

Answer 11

a relationship in witch one organism lives in or on another organism and benefits from that relationship while the other organism may be harmed by it

Question 12

commensalism

Answer 12

a reationship between two kinds kinds of organisms thatt benifits one without harming the other.