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| The living or once-living things in an organism's habitat. Bacteria, Humans, Animals, Plants, Rotting Branches |
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| The nonliving things an organisms habitat or man-made things. Soil, Water, Air, Rocks, Temperature, Wind, Plastic, Buildings |
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| When there is a close relationship between 2 organisms and both benefit from the relationship. Hippos and Oxpeckers, Cow Birds and Cows, Humans and E-Coli Bacteria, Coral and Algae |
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| When there is a close relationship between 2 organisms; 1 benefits but the other is neither helped nor harmed. This relationship is rare in nature. Oak Tree and Spanish Moss, Orchid and Banyan Tree |
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| When there is a close relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is harmed. Fleas and Dogs, Tapeworms and Humans, Ticks and Deer, Leeches and Fish |
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| A factor in the environment that keeps an organisms population from increasing. amount of food, amount of water, temperature, amount of space |
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| A type of seed plant that produces naked seeds because they ar not protected by a fruit. Pine Trees, Cypress Trees, Cedar Trees, Sago Palm, Gingko Tree, Red Wood |
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| A type of flowering plant. Once the flowers are polinated it produces seeds covered with a fruit. Azaleas, Lemons, Oak Trees, Tomatoes |
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| Type of Angiosperm, 1 seed leaf, veins in the leaves are parallel to each other, vascular tissue is scattered, Flower parts in threes. Grass, Daisy, Sunflower, Corn |
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| Type of Angiosperm, Two Seed Leaves, Veins in the leaves are branching, Vascular tissue is in a circular pattern, Flower Parts in 4's or 5's. Oak, Hicory, Sweetgum, Elm |
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| A group of like organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring. Oak, Bears, Raccoons, Humans |
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| All the members of one species in a particular area. Deer in a forest area |
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| All of the different population living together. All the deer, Black Bear, Raccoons, Opossum, Mountain Lions, in the South Alabama Forest |
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| The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with the nonliving surroundings. All the deer, Black Bear, Raccoons, Opossum, Trees, Water, Air, Rocks, in the SA forest |
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| The organism that hunts, stalks, and kills the organism they are stalking. Wolf, Tiger, Lion, Bear |
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| The organism that is hunted, stalked, killed, and eaten by another organism. Rabbit, Deer, Rat, Mouse |
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| An organisms genetic combination. Brown Eyed People have a genetic combination of BB or Bb and Blue Eyed People have a genetic comination of bb. |
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| An organisms physical appearance of their genetic combination. |
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| All reproduction in all regular body cell. The cell nucleus divides into two nuclei and DNA is copied. The cell divides in half creatiing two identicla cells with one nucleus and a complete copy of the cells DNA. |
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| Sex cell reproduction that occurs in the reproductive only ovaries and testis. The cell divides creating two identical cells but they only have half the DNA material. During sexual reproduction when the egg is fertilized by the sperm cell it gets half the DNA from the mother and half from the father to make a DNA sequence. |
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| The stronger of the two genes that control what the organism looks like. Brown Eyes are dominant over blue eyes |
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| The weaker or hidden of the gene combination. Blue Eyes are recessive |
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