Chapter 18 - Enviroment

Question 1

Biotic

Answer 1

Organisms that live together and interact

Question 2

Abiotic

Answer 2

Nonliving

Question 3

Population

Answer 3

Group of individuals of the same species that live together

Question 4

Community

Answer 4

All the populations of a species that live and interact in an area

Question 5

Ecosystem

Answer 5

A community of organisms and their abiotic environment

Question 6

Ecology

Answer 6

Study of interactions of organisms with one another

Question 7

Biosphere

Answer 7

The part of earth where life exists

Question 8

Herbivore

Answer 8

An organism that only eats plants

Question 9

Carnivore

Answer 9

An organism that eats animals

Question 10

Omnivore

Answer 10

An organism that eats both plants and animals

Question 11

Food chain

Answer 11

The pathway of energy of various stages as a result of eating patterns of a series of organisms

Question 12

Food web

Answer 12

A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem

Question 13

Energy pyramid

Answer 13

A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s lost of energy

Question 14

Carrying capacity

Answer 14

The largest population that an environment can support at any given time

Question 15

Prey

Answer 15

An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism

Question 16

Predator

Answer 16

An organism that eats all or part of another organism

Question 17

Symbiosis

Answer 17

A relationship when 2 different organisms live in close association with each other

Question 18

Commensalism

Answer 18

A relationship between one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

Question 19

Parasitism

Answer 19

A relationship between two species, in one is the parasite and benefits, and the other is harmed

Question 20

Coevolution

Answer 20

The evolution of two species because of mutual influence; a way to make a relationship beneficial for both organisms

Question 21

Mutualism

Answer 21

A relationship where both organisms benefit