Eagles Science Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 an animal that eats another | predator |
| an animal that is eaten by another | prey |
| struggle betweeen organisms for the same resources | competition |
| organisms work together for a common purpose | cooperation |
| a close relationship between two species who live together | symbiosis |
| a relationship between members of two species that benifits both | mutualism |
| a relationship between members of two species that benifits one and has no effect on the other | commensalism |
| a relationship between members of two species in which one benifits and the other is harmed | parasitism |
| a living thing | organism |
| a group of living things of the same species | population |
| a group of living things of different species | community |
| why do plants compete with each other? | light, space, nutrients |
| what are 3 reasons animals may compete? | food, mates, territory |
| what are reasons some organisms cooperate? | food, protection |
| a close relationship between two species that live together | symbiosis |
| both species benifit, one benifits while the other is not affected, one benifits while the other is harmed | characteristics of symbiosis |
| what are some examples of symbiosis? | mutalism, parasitism, commensalism |
| what is a tick an example of? | parasitism |
| what is fungus? | decomposer |
| which is a more dominent species? grass or dandelion | dandelion |
| the pond frog catches a bug on his tongue-what is the frog? what is the bug? | frog-predator bug-prey |
| ants crawl over a dead worms body to get food, what are ants? | scavenger |
| all living and non living things in an area-ecosystem, organism, community, population | ecosystem |
| all the ants in an anthill-ecosystem, organism, community, population | population |
| fish, frogs, turtles, lily pads and dragonflies - ecosystem, organism, community, population | community |
| a rainbow trout in a stream-ecosystem, organism, community, population | organism |
| non-living | abiotic |
| living | biotic |
| something that eats plants | herbivore |
| something that eats meat | carnivore |
| soemthing that eats plants and meat | omnivore |
| something that eats insects | insectivore |
| organism that hunts for dead food | scavenger |
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