Science Vocab.

Question 1

food chains

Answer 1

Chain showing how energy passes from one organism the next

Question 2

Herbivore

Answer 2

eat producers

Question 3

sybiosis

Answer 3

any close relationship between species, including mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism

Question 4

predator

Answer 4

animal that hunts and kills other animals for food

Question 5

carrying capacity

Answer 5

largest number of individuals of a particular of a particular species that an ecosystem can support

Question 6

biomes

Answer 6

forest/desert/grassland/artic

Question 7

energy pyramid

Answer 7

shows the direction in which energy flows. As the amount of available energy decreases, the pyramid gets smaller. each layer is called a trophic level

Question 8

prouducers

Answer 8

organism that makes its own food, autograph

Question 9

consumers

Answer 9

organism that cannot make its own food, a heterograph

Question 10

decomposers

Answer 10

consume waste and dead organisms and returns nutrients to the soil by providing Carbon dioxide

Question 11

food webs

Answer 11

complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships

Question 12

Prey

Answer 12

an animal that is hunted and caught for food. prey is a consumer; it may be a herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore

Question 13

carnivore

Answer 13

eat herbivores, omnivores, or other carnivores

Question 14

omnivore

Answer 14

eat producers and consumers

Question 15

Mutuaralisum

Answer 15

+ + both benefit

Question 16

commensalism

Answer 16

+ 0 one gets the benefit the other doesn’t but isn’t affected

Question 17

paratialism

Answer 17

+ - on species gets the benefit while the other is harmed