| A | B |
|---|
| diurnal | active during the day |
| biotic | living factors |
| population | a group of organisms of the same kind in the same area |
| praire dog | primary food of black-footed ferret |
| crespuscular | active at dawn and dusk |
| abiotic | non-living |
| biosphere | all of the ecosystems, the earth |
| badger and eagle | two predators of the black-footed ferret |
| nocturnal | activie during the night |
| hydrotropism | responds to water |
| organism | any living thing |
| parasitism | symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed |
| light, water and air | abiotic factors that affect people |
| phototropism | responds to light |
| ecosystem | a group of communities and non living factors of an area |
| mutualism | symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit |
| green plants, bacteria and animals | biotic factors that affect people |
| characteristics of living things | reproduce, growth, change, needs food, needs water and uses energy |
| order of the levels of ecology | organism, population, community, ecosystem and biosphere |
| commensalism | symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is not harmed |
| food chain | the energy pathway of a community |
| producers | green plants, organisms that can make their own food directly from the sun |
| incisors | square, front cutting teeth in mammals |
| rainforest | biome with the most diversity of life |
| badger | major predator of the black-footed ferret |
| primary consumers | organisms that eat producers |
| food web | a group of connected food chains |
| diastema | the space where cannines should be in herbivores |
| temperate forest | biome that we live in |
| decomposer | organisms that break down dead organisms so they can decay |
| color of the ever-growing teeth in rodents | orange |
| desert | biome with the least amount of precipitation but good soil |
| sunlight, heat, moisture are examples of WHAT type of factors | abiotic |
| prey animals of owls | voles, shrews, mice, moles and birds |
