ecology

Question 1

environment

Answer 1

Includes all the things an organism needs to survive

Question 2

Habitat

Answer 2

The habitat provides the organism with food, water, and shelter. It is where the organism lives.

Question 3

population

Answer 3

A population is made up of the same kind of organisms. They live together in the same habitat.

Question 4

Niche

Answer 4

includes what it eats and what environment it needs to survive.

Question 5

biotic

Answer 5

Biotic components are the living things that shape an ecosystem.

Question 6

predator

Answer 6

A predator is an animal that hunts other animals for food.

Question 7

parasite

Answer 7

A parasite is an organism that lives on or in another organism. It takes nourishment from its victim.

Question 8

symbiosis

Answer 8

relationship between two species that interact in ways that influence each other’s evolution

Question 9

Mutualism

Answer 9

Mutualism is a relationship between two species in which both benefit from the relationship.

Question 10

Ecosystem

Answer 10

all of the living and nonliving parts of the environment that interact with each other.

Question 11

ecology

Answer 11

the study of how organisms interact with their environment and with other organisms.

Question 12

Dominant species

Answer 12

a group of organisms that outnumbers/dominates the other species in the area.

Question 13

Biosphere

Answer 13

All places on Earth where living things exist is a biosphere

Question 14

species

Answer 14

organisms that share the same characteristics and features belong to the same species.

Question 15

community

Answer 15

a group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment

Question 16

competition

Answer 16

the interaction between organisms or species that use the same resources in which the health of one is negatively affected by the presence of others.

Question 17

abiotic

Answer 17

all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

Question 18

prey

Answer 18

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 19

host

Answer 19

Organisms that is parasitized or subject to attack by one or more parasites

Question 20

Parasitism

Answer 20

a certain type if non-mutual relationship found between two different species in which one organism known as the parasite benefits at the expense of the other organism.

Question 21

Commensalism

Answer 21

A relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus, in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either.