Level 2 Vocabulary

Question 0

What does competition mean?

Answer 0

A contest between two organisms

Question 1

What does Carrying Capacity mean?

Answer 1

Maximum numbers of organisms an area can support on a long term basis

Question 2

What does commensalism mean?

Answer 2

A relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits without affecting the other

Question 3

What does a predator-prey relationship mean?

Answer 3

Where the predator gets food by killing and eating prey

Question 4

What does symbiosis mean?

Answer 4

When two organisms live together in some type of long term relationship, it’s called at symbiosis.

Question 5

What does mutualism mean?

Answer 5

A relationship where both organisms benefit.

Question 6

What does parasitism mean?

Answer 6

When one organism benefits and the other one is harmed.

Question 7

What does qualitative mean?

Answer 7

Measuring something that deals with descriptions and letters.

Question 8

What does quantitative mean?

Answer 8

The data deals with numbers.

Question 9

What is a producer?

Answer 9

A plant

Question 10

What is a primary consumer?

Answer 10

Someone who eats producers

Question 11

What is a secondary consumer?

Answer 11

They eat primary consumers

Question 12

What is a tertiary consumer?

Answer 12

They eat secondary consumers.

Question 13

What is a predator?

Answer 13

An organism that hunts smaller organisms

Question 14

What’s a prey?

Answer 14

Usually eaten by predators

Question 15

What is a herbivore?

Answer 15

When an organism eats plants. PLANTS ONLY.

Question 16

What is a omnivore?

Answer 16

A organism that eats anything….

Question 17

What is a carnivore?

Answer 17

An organism that eats meat

Question 18

How are the living creatures in a ecosystem linked?

Answer 18

By what they eat

Question 19

What role do WE play in the food web?

Answer 19

Consumer

Question 20

How might a lack of sunlight disrupt the food web?

Answer 20

It would prevent producers from producing nutrients

Question 21

How is a food web different from a food chain?

Answer 21

Food webs contain many different, linked food chains

Question 22

Through what process do producers make their own food?

1. ) Parthenogenesis
2. ) Photosynthesis
3. ) Meiosis
4. ) Mitosis

Answer 22

2, Photosynthesis

Question 23

Which of the following is a producer?

1) Bear
2) Human
3) Mushroom
4) Tree

Answer 23

Tree

Question 24

A mushroom is most likely...
A) A primary consumer
B) A secondary consumer
C) A decomposer
D) A producer

Answer 24

A decomposer, C

Question 25

What’s a decomposer?

Answer 25

When a organism dies, the rest of the organism decomposes into the ground.