Vocabulary

Question 1

Producers

Answer 1

organism that makes its own food. Does not consume other plants or animals

Question 2

Consumer

Answer 2

Depends on other plants and animals for food.

Question 3

Predators

Answer 3

Animals that depends on other animals for food.

Question 4

Prey

Answer 4

Animal hunted by other animals

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

Organisms that share characteristics with other animals

Question 6

Population

Answer 6

Organisms that share the same habitat

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

Animals that share the same habitat

Question 8

Biodiversity

Answer 8

The many different types of life in an environment.

Question 9

Biosphere

Answer 9

The part of earth in which life could exist.

Question 10

Food chain

Answer 10

model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

Question 11

food web

Answer 11

a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 12

Habitat

Answer 12

The place in which organisms live.

Question 13

Biome

Answer 13

major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert.

Question 14

Ecosystem

Answer 14

An ecosystem is a community of living things (including plants, animals, and people), the environment that surrounds them (including soil, water, and air), and how they interact. The United States has many different ecosystems. Knowing which ecosystem you live in can help you understand if the area is a…

Question 15

niche

Answer 15

the place or role that an organism has in its habitat

Question 16

symbiosis

Answer 16

interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.

Question 17

mutualism

Answer 17

relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives off the other and both organisms benefit.

Question 18

commensalism

Answer 18

relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either

Question 19

parasitism

Answer 19

certain type of non mutual relationship found between two different species in which one organismknown as the parasitebenefits at the expense of the other organism

Question 20

bacteria fixing

Answer 20

microorganisms capable of transforming atmospheric nitrogen into fixed nitrogen

Question 21

lightning fixing

Answer 21

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in legumes and in the soil change the nitrogen in the soil into a form plants can use.