Science

Question 1

Biotic

Answer 1

Living. Was once living. Will become alive. A product of a living thing

Question 2

Organism

Answer 2

any living thing

Question 3

Abiotic

Answer 3

Not living. Never was living. Never will become alive. Not a product of a living thing

Question 4

Individual Organism

Answer 4

One single member of a species

Question 5

Population

Answer 5

more than one individual organism of the same species

Question 6

Ecosystem

Answer 6

different communities interacting with natural abiotic factors in the environment

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

Two populations of organisms interacting

Question 8

Carnivore

Answer 8

Carnivores only eat other animals. Cute and fuzzy mammals, insects and beautiful birds are delicious to them

Question 9

Autotrophs

Answer 9

Auto means on its own or by itself (automobile). Troph means food. Autotrophs make their own food through a process called photosynthesis

Question 10

Herbivores

Answer 10

Herbivores strictly eat producers
Grass, plants, leaves, other vegetation and photosynthetic microorganisms are their diet

Question 11

Heterotrophs

Answer 11

Hetero means different (heterosexual). Heterotrophs cannot make their own food, so they must find a different source of energy

Question 12

Matching

Answer 12

__ 1. Any living thing
__ 2. Two or more individuals of the same species

Community
Species
Organism
Ecosystem
Population

Question 13

Classification

Answer 13

Mark the following things with an A,I,P,C or E
__ Forest
__ Bees and bats
__ Seaweed
__ Saltwater

Question 14

True scavengers

Answer 14

Scavengers strictly EAT or CONSUME larger dead and decaying plant or animal material. Examples are vultures, condors crabs and hagfish

Question 15

omnivores

Answer 15

Omnivores eat both producers and other consumers. Usually they have a wide variety of food sources in their diet

Question 16

Opportunistic scavengers

Answer 16

Opportunistic scavengers are carnivores or omnivores that can’t pass up a free meal of dead stuff

Question 17

Detrivores

Answer 17

Detritivores EAT or CONSUME smaller, more broken down dead and decaying plant and animal matter (including poop). Examples include beetles, isopods and earthworms

Question 18

Decomposer

Answer 18

Unlike scavengers and detritivores, decomposers actually break down organic matter to a molecular level, putting nutrients back into the ground. Decomposers DO NOT eat, and they are not photosynthetic so they are in their own trophic category

Question 19

Mutualism

Answer 19

A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.

Question 20

Commensalism

Answer 20

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed or helped

Question 21

Parasitism

Answer 21

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of the other

Question 22

Predation

Answer 22

A symbiotic relationship where one organism kills and consumes another organism for food

Question 23

Competition

Answer 23

A symbiotic relationship where two or more species compete for the same resource

Question 24

Multiple choice

Answer 24

___1. An organism that only eats producers
Carnivore
Herbivore
Omnivore
Autotroph
Rothotroph