Vocabulary Check-up

An organism that must get food energy from other sources

• Whale

• Producer

• Consumer

• Fly

An association between 2 organisms of different species living together.

• symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Innate behavior

• Consumption

Both species benefit from the relationship

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• competition

Level or step in a food chain or web

• ecosystem

• habitat

• logistics

• Trophic Level

Organism that makes its own food (bottom of the pyramid); has the most available energy

• producer

• consumer

• horse

• chimpanzee

An organism's role in an environment

• consumer

• producer

• niche

• biotic factor

What is climate change caused by?

• A buildup of greenhouse gases

• solar flares

• meteorites

• cow farts

An individual species of a living thing

• population

• molecules

• cells

• organism

Smallest unit of all living things essential for form and function

• molecules

• cells

• organisms

• populations

Contains all ecosystems, combined portions where all life exists.

• habitat

• Ecosystem

• biosphere

• Pond