Interdependency Vocabulary 5.9 A,B,C

Front

What is a single, self-contained living thing?

Back

Organism

Front

What do you call an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals?

Back

Omnivore

Front

What is the term for an increase in the number of individuals of a given species over what its ecosystem can sustain?

Back

Overpopulation

Front

What do you call an animal that gets energy by only eating plants?

Back

Herbivore

Front

What is a long-term relationship between two different kinds of organisms where one or both receive benefit?

Back

Symbiotic

Front

What is the term for the non-living parts of an ecosystem?

Back

Abiotic

Front

What do you call the living parts of an ecosystem?

Back

Biotic

Front

What is the role of a producer in an ecosystem?

Back

Producers create their own food through photosynthesis.

Front

What is a carnivore?

Back

An animal that gets energy by only eating other animals.

Front

What is the food chain?

Back

A sequence that shows how energy and nutrients flow from one organism to another.