Vocabulary Words Flashcards
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Producers- an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals.
Consumers- an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)
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 share similar characteristics and can mate with each other to produce offspring.
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 an environment.
Biodiversity- the many different types of life that 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 many different feeding relationships among living things.
Habitat- the location in which an organism lives.
Biome- a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert.
Ecosystem- all the living and nonliving things in an area that interract 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 of both.
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 parasitebenefits 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.
