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 overlapping food chains in an ecoystem

Question 3

herbivore

Answer 3

An animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers

Question 4

carnivore

Answer 4

An animal that eats another animal

Question 5

predator

Answer 5

An animal that hunts another 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 dead animals

Question 8

omnivore

Answer 8

An animal that eats both plants and animals

Question 9

symbiosis

Answer 9

a relationship between two kinds of organism that last overtime

Question 10

mutualism

Answer 10

a relationship between two kinds of organism that benefits both

Question 11

parasitism

Answer 11

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

Question 12

commensalism

Answer 12

a relationship between two kinds of organism that benefits one without harming another