Science Flashcards
(21 cards)
Producer
An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals
Consumer
An organism the eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food
Predictor
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 share similar characteristics and can mate with each other and produce offsprings
Community
A group of different populations that live together and interact in an different environment
Biodiversity
That many different types of life exist in an environment
Biosphere
That 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 different feeding relationships among other living things
Habitat
A location in which an organism lives
Biome
A mojo ecological community such as grasslands, rain forest,or desert
Ecosystem
All living and no living things in one area that interact with each other
Niche
A place or role that an organism has in its habitat
Mutualism
A relationship between two species of a plant,animal, or fungus in which one lives off the other without damage to either
Parasitism
A certain type of non mutual relationship found between two different species in which one known as the parasite benefits at the expense of the other organism
Bacteria fixing
Single- celled organism without nucleus
Lightning fixing
A large discharge of electricity through the air that balances a different in a electric charge between one cloud or another or between clouds and the ground
Populations
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area
Symbiosis
The living together of two dissimilar organisms as in mutualism, commensalism,or parasitism
Commensalism
A relationship between to species of a plant ,animal ,or fungus in which one lives with, on ,or in the other without damaging either
