Vocab. Ch.6

Question 1

Population

Answer 1

A group of organisms that live in one location

Question 2

Community

Answer 2

A group of populations that live together

Question 3

Competition

Answer 3

A kind of contest among populations that need to get a certain amount of food, water, and shelter

Question 4

Adaptation

Answer 4

A trait or characteristic that helps and organism survive

Question 5

Symbiosis

Answer 5

A relationship between different kinds if organisms

Question 6

Predator

Answer 6

Animal that kills and eats other animals

Question 7

Prey

Answer 7

An animal that it eaten by a predator

Question 8

Succession

Answer 8

A gradual change in organisms livening in an ecosystem

Question 9

Extinction

Answer 9

The deaths of all organisms of a species

Question 10

Pollution

Answer 10

A waste product that harms living things and ecosystems

Question 11

Acid rain

Answer 11

A mixture of rain and acid from air pollution that falls to Earth

Question 12

Habitat

Answer 12

An area where organisms an find everything they need to survive

Question 13

Conservation

Answer 13

The use of less resources to make them last longer

Question 14

Reclamation

Answer 14

The process of cleaning and restoring a damaged ecosystem

Question 15

Parasite

Answer 15

Steals food or harms a host in any other way