| A | B |
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| Ecosystem | All the living and noliving things in a particular environment |
| Community | All populations that live in the same area |
| Habitat | An organism's home that supplies everything it needs |
| True | T or F There are four essential elements to a habitat |
| Food, Water, Shelter, and Space | What are the four essential element to a habitat? |
| Niche | An organism's role in the ecosystem |
| Organsim | Any living thing |
| Consumer | An organism that receives energy by consuming other organisms (mostly animals |
| Hawk | Who is on top of the food chain: Grasshopper feeds on grass,snake feed on grasshopper, hawk feeds on snake |
| Producer | An organism that produces its own food (mostly plants) |
| Decomposer (including Scavenger) | An organsim that feeds on decaying matter (like a turkey vulture,bateria, fungi |
| Carnivore | An organism that feeds on animals |
| Carnivore | Bald eagle, felines, sharks, spiders |
| Herbivore | An organism that feeds only on plants |
| Herbivore | Sheep, rabbits, grasshoppers |
| Omnivore | An oganism that feeds on plants and animals |
| Omnivore | Humans,seaguls, raccoons |
| Host | An organism which a parasite uses for a food source |
| Human | Who is the Host in this example: the leech used the human's blood as food |
| Parasite | An organism that lives on or in another organism of another species where it gets food, protection |
| False | T or F Parasites are NOT harmful to their host |
| Symbiosis | A relationship between organisms where the interaction between the two helps both organisms |
| Symbiosis | A pilot fish swimming next to a shark is an example of what? |
| Competitor | An organism that competes with another organism over the same food source, territory, etc |
| True | Plants are competitors with eachother for water and sunlight |
| Adaptation | It is a special skill or change over time which helps an oransim survie and do everything it needs to do. |
| Structural and Behavioral | What are two types of Adaptation |
| Structural | Meekats have dark circles around theri eyes that act like sunglasses is and example of what Adaptation? |
| Behavioral | An opoossum will pretend to be dead if it feels threatened is an example of what type of adaptation? |
