Vocabulary Flashcards
Producers
Use sunlight and CO2 to make food for themselves.
Predator
Is an animal that hunts other animals for food.
Prey
Is an animal that is hunted by other animals.
Are organisms that share the same characteristics and features.
Species
Which is population? A. all places on Earth where life exists B. made up of the same kind of organism C. organisms that share the same characteristics D. depend on producers for food
Answer is B.
______ is a place where an organism lives.
______ describes the food relationships of the animals living in an ecosystem.
______ is the term given to the variety of life on Earth.
Habitat
Food Web
Biodiversity
A __________ is like a group of species.
Community
The _________ includes all places on Earth where life exists.
A ____ chain shows how food and energy passes for one organism to another in an ecosystem.
Biosphere
Food Chain
Match them up. (Paper preferred)
Biome A
Ecosystem B
Niche C
Symbiosis D
__ is a complex community that inhabits living and nonliving things that interact with each other.
__ is what a biotic factor needs to survive.
__ have different climates and have distinctive animal and plant groups.
__ is a relationship between two organisms in which one depends on the other.
B
C
A
D
Mut______ is a relationship between two species in which both benefit from the relationship.
Mutualism
Which cycle is this part of?
Bacteria-Fixing and Lightning-Fixing
Nitrogen Cycle
Commensalism A
Parasitism B
__ is a relationship between two organisms in which one is benefited and the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
__ is a relationship between one organism benefits at the host’s expense.
A
B