Ecosystems

Question 1

Producers

Answer 1

An organism that does not eat other plants and animals that makes its own food.

Question 2

Consumers

Answer 2

An organism that can’t make its own food and gets its food by eating other animals.

Question 3

Prey

Answer 3

An animal that is eaten by other animals for food.

Question 4

Predators

Answer 4

An animal that eats other animals.

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

A group of organisms that are similar.

Question 6

Populations

Answer 6

A bunch of organisms living together.

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

A group of organisms that live together in the same environment.

Question 8

Biodiversity

Answer 8

A variety of species that live in the same environment.

Question 9

Biosphere

Answer 9

The part of the earth where life can exist.

Question 10

Food Chain

Answer 10

A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.

Question 11

Food Web

Answer 11

A model that shows different feeding relationships among living things.

Question 12

Habitat

Answer 12

A location in which an organism exist.

Question 13

Biome

Answer 13

A major ecological community.

Question 14

Ecosystem

Answer 14

All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other.

Question 15

Niche

Answer 15

A place and a role an animal has in its habitat.

Question 16

Symbiosis

Answer 16

A close interaction between two different species.

Question 17

Mutualism

Answer 17

A relationship between two different species in which one last version off the other and both benefit.

Question 18

Commensalism

Answer 18

Relationship between two animals in which one lives off the other and one benefits.

Question 19

Parasitism

Answer 19

A relationship in which one organism benefits at the host’s expense.

Question 20

Bacteria Fixing

Answer 20

When bacteria breaks down a substance for living things to take in.

Question 21

Lighting Fixing

Answer 21

When nitrogen molecules a fix into precipitation.