Question |
Answer |
An ________ includes all living and no living things in an environment. |
Ecosystem |
A _________ includes all members of a single species in an area at a given time. |
Population |
A _______ includes all living things in an ecosystem. |
Community |
The death that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem is called? |
Food Chain |
_________ are organisms that use the Suna??s energy to make sugar and oxygen. |
Producers |
A ________ is any animal that eats plants or other animals. |
Consumer |
Animals that eat other animals are called? |
Carnivores |
Animals that eat producers are called? |
Herbivores |
Animals that eat both plants and other animals are called? |
Omnivores |
________ break down dead or delaying plant and animal material. |
Decomposers |
A ________ is a consumer that eats the remains of dead animals that it did not hunt or kill. |
Scavenger |
A ___ ____ is a network of food chains that have some links in common. |
Food Web |
A _______ is a living thing that hunts and kills other living things for food. |
Predator |
_____ are organisms that are eaten by predators. |
Prey |
An ______ _______ is a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of an ecosystem. |
Energy Pyramid |
A _____ ____ is a sudden explosive growth of single-celled algae in coastal areas. |
Red tide |
A ______ ______ is any resource that restricts the growth of populations. |
Limiting factor |
The fight for limited resource. |
Competition |
The _________ ________ is the greatest number of individuals within a population that an ecosystem can support. |
Carrying capacity |
A _______ is the physical place where an organism lives and hunts for food. |
Habitat |
A _____ is the special role that an organism plays in a community. |
Niche |
_________ is the reliance of organisms for their survival. |
Interdependence |
______ is a relationship between two or more kinds of organisms that lasts over time. |
Symbiosis |
A symbiotic relationship that benefits both organisms is called _________. |
Mutualism |
A _____ is actually to different organisms – a fungus and an alga – that live together |
Lichen |
A symbiotic relationship that benefits one organism without harming the other is called __________. |
Commensalism |
_______ is a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed |
Parasitism |
A ______ lives in or on a host organism and benefits from the relationship. |
Parasite |
Some parasites are Protists, including the species of amoeba that causes a disease called ________. |
Dysentery |
An ______ is any characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment. |
Adaptation |
______ ______ are adjustments to internal or external physical structures. |
Structural adaptations |
An adjustment in an organisma??s behavior is a ______ ______ |
Behavioral adaptation |
______ is a movement of animals to find food. |
Migration |
______ is a period of inactivity during cold weather. |
Hibernation |
Orchid stems have a storage organs called _______. |
Pseudobulbs |
Desert animals are often ______. |
Nocturnal |
Any coloring, shape, or pattern that allows an organism to blend in with its environment is called ________. |
Camouflage |
________ _______ is a type of camouflage in which a color of an animal helps it blend in with its background. |
Protective coloration |
Matching the color, shape, and texture of an environment is called _______ ______. |
Protective resemblance |
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against predators by its resemblance to an unpleasant animal is called _______. |
Mimicry |