Flash Cards Science

Question 1

Producer

Answer 1

An organism that makes its own food; and organisms that doesn’t consume other plants or animals

Question 2

Consumers

Answer 2

An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that doesn’t produce its on food

Question 3

Predators

Answer 3

An animal that hunts and eats another animal

Question 4

Prey

Answer 4

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

A group of organisms that shares similar characteristics and can mate together with each other to produce off spring

Question 6

Populations

Answer 6

The group of organisms of the same species living in the same area

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Biodiversity

Answer 8

The many different types of life that exist in an environment

Question 9

Biosphere

Answer 9

The part of earth in which 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 many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 12

Habitat

Answer 12

The location in which an organism lives in

Question 13

Biome

Answer 13

A major ecological community such as a grassland tropical rain forest or dessert

Question 14

Ecosystem

Answer 14

All living things and no living things in an area that interacts with each other

Question 15

Niche

Answer 15

The place or role that an organism has in its habitat

Question 16

Symbiosis

Answer 16

Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association typically to the advantage

Question 17

Mutualism

Answer 17

a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives off the other and both organisms benefit.

Question 18

Commensalism

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Parasitism

Answer 19

a certain type of 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 20

Bacteria Fixing

Answer 20

any bacteria that combines nitrogen with oxygen or hydrogen to create compounds that is usable by plants.

Question 21

Lightning Fixing

Answer 21

the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds by certain bacteria, such as Rhizobium in the root nodules of legumes. 2. a process, such as the Haber process, in which atmospheric nitrogen is converted into a nitrogen compound, used esp for the manufacture of fertilizer.