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| The changes that an organism goes through to make it better suited to it's environment. Ex. Girraffe with a long neck to reach plant life to eat high up in trees. |
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Changes in behavior or physical characteristics that allows the organsim to live in their environment.
EX. Hunting at night instead of the day when there is more competition for food. |
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| The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources (food, water, shelter) |
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| The organism that does the killing. |
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| The organism that is killed. |
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| When one organism kills another and eats it. |
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| A close relationship between two organisms where at least one benefits from the interaction. There are 3 types (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism) |
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| Relationship where both species benefit from the interaction. |
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| One species benefits and the other species is neither harmed nor helped from the relationship. |
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| One organism benefits from the relationship while the other organism is harmed. |
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| In parasitism it is the organsim that benefits from the relationship. |
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| In parasitism it is the organsim that the parasite lives on or in. It causes the host harm. |
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| All the living and non-living things in an area create an ecosystem. Can be as large as an ocean or as small as a drop of water. |
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| A place where an organism lives. It provides the organism food, water, shelter, grow and reproduce. |
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| The living parts of an ecosystem. |
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| The non-living parts of an ecosystem. Including: water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, and soil. |
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| The way a plant produces glucose to use as food. Using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. It takes place in the plants chloroplast. |
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| A group of organisms that are similar and can reproduce fertile offspring. |
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All the members of one species in a particular area. (Only living things)
Ex. All the dogs.
All the grey wolves. |
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All the different populations living in an area.
Ex. All the plants, mice, snakes, eagles. |
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| The study of how living interact with each other and their environment. |
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| An organism that can make its own food. They do this throught the process called photosynthesis. |
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| An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms. |
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| An organism that eats only plants for its energy. |
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| An organsim that eats only meat for its energy. |
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| An organism that eats both plants and animals to obtain its energy. |
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| A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
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| Organisms that break down wastes and dead organsims and return the raw materials to the environment. |
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| A series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy. |
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| Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
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| An environmental factor that stops a population from increasing. Some examples include lack of food, space, and weather. |
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| The largest population that an environment can support. |
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| A role of the organism. The job it does in an ecosystem. |
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