Food Chains & Ecological Relationships

What do you call an animal that only eats plants?

• niche

• carnivore

• parasite

• herbivore

• predator

What do you call the interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association?

• photosynthesis

• symbiosis

• habitat

• prey

• omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

This term describes a consumer that feeds on other consumers - the 'opposite' of vegan…

• mutualsim

• niche

• prey

• autotroph

• carnivore

The animal in an ecological relationship that results in another animal being hunted, killed, and eaten…

• commensalism

• habitat

• predator

• herbivore

• parasite

The natural home or environment where an animal, plant or other organism lives…

• omnivore

• habitat

• community

• symbiosis

• food chain

What would you call an ecological relationship that is helpful to both organisms involved?

• commensalism
• niche
• mutualism
• habitat
• parasitism

A relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is usually harmed…

• parasitism

• herbivore

• mutualism

• carnivore

• commensalism

This is the job or role of an organism within its habitat...

• producer

• prey

• carnivore

• niche

• photosynthesis

What you would call a relationship between two organisms where one benefits, but the other is not helped or harmed?

• mutualsim

• predator

• commensalism

• parasitism

• herbivory

The name of the process that producers use to make their own food…

• predation

• commensalism

• food web

• photosynthesis

• symbiosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6