1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt CHAINS WEBS PYRAMIDS ASSORTED KEY TERMS ADAPTATIONSECOSYSTEMS INTERACTION AND EVOLUTION

2. SHOWS HOW ENERGY IS PASSED THROUGH AN ECOSYSYSTEM IN A VERY SIMPLE WAY

3. WHAT IS A FOOD CHAIN?

4. Shows how energy passes through an ecosystem more realistically by linking several food chains.

5. What is a food web?

6. Green plants that can make their own food through the process of photosynthesis

7. What is an autotroph? What is a producer?

8. The ultimate source of energy in an ecosystem

9. What is the sun?

10. This model shows that the amount of energy and biomass decreases as you go further up the food chain.

11. What is a food pyramid?

12. This term is used to describe a living thing.

13. What is an organism (biotic)?

14. This branch of biology specializes in the interaction between living organisms and their environment.

15. What is ecology?

16. This is from the Greek word “oikos” meaning “house or place to live”

17. What is ecology?

18. This name is used to describe the human infected by a tapeworm.

19. What is a host?

20. This special name is given to the organisms like bacteria and fungi that help return nutrients back into the environment.

21. What are decomposers?

22. This is the name given to an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

23. What is prey?

24. This is the name given to an animal who hunts down another animal for food.

25. What is a predator?

26. This term describes several populations of living things living together within the same ecosystem.

27. What is a community?

28. This term describes the place where a plant or animal may live and be most adapted to.

29. What is a habitat?

30. This term describes the job an animal or plant has within a community.

31. What is a niche?

32. This is the term for an animal whose color blends in with it’s surroundings.

33. What is camouflage?

34. This refers to an adaptation where an organism looks like another more dangerous organism.

35. What is mimicry?

36. This occurs when two or more organisms share the same niche in the same ecosystem.

37. What is competition?

38. This term best describes the relationship between a dog and tick.

39. What is parasitism?

40. This relationship benefits two organisms that cooperate together.

41. What is mutualism?

42. This term best describes the relationship between goby fish and snapping shrimp.

43. What is mutualism?

44. A close relationship in which one organism lives near, on, or even inside of another organism and at least one benefits.

45. What is symbiosis?

46. This kind of symbiosis occurs between two different organisms where one benefits and the other is unaffected.

47. What is commensalism?

48. This term best describes the relationship between a remora fish and a shark.

49. What is commensalism?

50. This is the only thing besides a natural disaster that can throw an ecosystem completely out of balance

51. What is human activity?