Unit 5

Question 1

What is biotic?

Answer 1

bīˈätik/
adjective
of, relating to, or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
“the preservation of biotic diversity”

Question 2

What is abiotic?

Answer 2

ˌābīˈädik/
adjective
physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
devoid of life; sterile.

Question 3

What is producer?

Answer 3

Plants are called producers. This is because they produce their own food! They do this by using light energy from the Sun, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to produce food - in the form of glucouse/sugar. The process is called photosynthesis.

Question 4

What is cosumer?

Answer 4

A heterotrophic organism that feeds on other organisms in a food chain. ◇ Herbivores that feed on green plants and detritivores that feed on decaying matter are called primary consumers.

Question 5

Herbavor

Answer 5

Eats plants

Question 6

Omnivore

Answer 6

Eats both plants and animals

Question 7

Carnivore

Answer 7

Eats meat

Question 8

Habitat

Answer 8

Then enviorment where an animal live

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

The study of organisms and their cycles

Question 10

Biodiversity

Answer 10

The different living forms

Question 11

Symbiosis

Answer 11

When only onw organism benifits from the other, but dies not harm the host

Question 12

Parasitism

Answer 12

Where the host is harmed by the benifit of another organism

Question 13

Mutualism

Answer 13

Where no organism benifits or is harmed

Question 14

Commensalism

Answer 14

Both benifit