Ecosystem Vocab

Question 1

Producer

Answer 1

an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals.

Question 2

Consumer

Answer 2

an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)

Question 3

Predator

Answer 3

an animal that hunts and eats other animals

Question 4

Prey

Answer 4

an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can mate with each other to produce offspring

Question 6

Population

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the group of organisms of the same species living in the same area

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

a group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment

Question 8

Biodiversity

Answer 8

the many different types of life that exist in an environment

Question 9

Biosphere

Answer 9

that part of Earth in which life can exist

Question 10

Food chain

Answer 10

a 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 location in which an organism lives

Question 13

Biome

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Ecosystem

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all the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other

Question 15

Niche

Answer 15

the place or role that an organism has in its habitat

Question 16

Mutualism

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

Question 17

Commensalism

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a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other

Question 18

Parasitism

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a 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 19

Symbiotic

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relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other

Question 20

Symbiotic

Answer 20

relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other

Question 21

Symbiotic

Answer 21

relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other

Question 22

Symbiotic

Answer 22

relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other