Chapter 1 Science

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Producer

Question 2

an organism that eats other living things to get energy it is an organism that does not produce it’s own food

Answer 2

Consumer

Question 3

an animal that eats other animals

Answer 3

Predators

Question 4

an animal that is hunted by another animal

Answer 4

Prey

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Species

Question 6

a group of organisms that have the same species living in the same area

Answer 6

Population

Question 7

a group of different organisms that live together and in the same environment

Answer 7

Community

Question 8

all the different types of life that exist in an erviroment

Answer 8

biodiversity

Question 9

the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms

Answer 9

biosphere

Question 10

a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a food source

Answer 10

Food chain

Question 11

a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains

Answer 11

Food Web

Question 12

the natural home of an animal, a plant, or any other organism

Answer 12

Habitat

Question 13

a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat

Answer 13

Biome

Question 14

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Answer 14

Ecosystem

Question 15

The place or role where an organism has its habitat

Answer 15

Niche

Question 16

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

Answer 16

symbiosis

Question 17

the doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well-being. Symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved

Answer 17

mutualism

Question 18

an association between to organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm

Answer 18

commensalism

Question 19

is a relationship between two things in which one of them benefits from or lives of the other

Answer 19

parasitism

Question 20

are microorganisms present in the soil or in a plants roots that change nitrogen gases from the atmosphere into solid nitrogen compounds that plants can use in the soil

Answer 20

bacteria fixing

Question 21

it is fixing nitrogen gases into precipitation

Answer 21

Lightning fixing