Vocabulary

Question 1

Any living thing

Answer 1

organism

Question 2

All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions

Answer 2

ecosystem

Question 3

a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live

Answer 3

habitat

Question 4

a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time

Answer 4

population

Question 5

different populations in an area

Answer 5

community

Question 6

an animal that hunts and eats another animal

Answer 6

predator

Question 7

any animal that is hunted by others for food

Answer 7

prey

Question 8

an organism that makes its own food

Answer 8

producer

Question 9

an organism that cannot make its own food

Answer 9

consumer

Question 10

an organism that gets energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms

Answer 10

decomposer

Question 11

a series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another

Answer 11

food chain

Question 12

a diagram that combines many food chains into one picture

Answer 12

food web

Question 13

a long-term relationship between two different organisms

Answer 13

symbiosis

Question 14

all of the conditions surrounding an organism

Answer 14

environment

Question 15

the struggle of organisms for the same limited resources

Answer 15

competition

Question 16

any substance that damages the environment

Answer 16

pollution

Question 17

an attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes

Answer 17

conservation