Flash Cards Science
(21 cards)
Producer
An organism that makes its own food; and organisms that doesn’t consume other plants or animals
Consumers
An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that doesn’t produce its on food
Predators
An animal that hunts and eats another animal
Prey
An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
Species
A group of organisms that shares similar characteristics and can mate together with each other to produce off spring
Populations
The group of organisms of the same species living in the same area
Community
A group of different populations that live together and interact in a environment
Biodiversity
The many different types of life that exist in an environment
Biosphere
The part of earth in which life can exist
Food Chain
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
Food Web
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things
Habitat
The location in which an organism lives in
Biome
A major ecological community such as a grassland tropical rain forest or dessert
Ecosystem
All living things and no living things in an area that interacts with each other
Niche
The place or role that an organism has in its habitat
Symbiosis
Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association typically to the advantage
Mutualism
a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives off the other and both organisms benefit.
Commensalism
a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either.
Parasitism
a certain type of non mutual relationship found between two different species in which one organism known as the parasite benefits at the expense of the other. organism.
Bacteria Fixing
any bacteria that combines nitrogen with oxygen or hydrogen to create compounds that is usable by plants.
Lightning Fixing
the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds by certain bacteria, such as Rhizobium in the root nodules of legumes. 2. a process, such as the Haber process, in which atmospheric nitrogen is converted into a nitrogen compound, used esp for the manufacture of fertilizer.
