Ch3.3-3.4: Community Ecology

A group of all the different organisms in the same place at the same time.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Society

A group of organisms of the same species in the same place at the same time

• Population

• Community

• Society

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The act of one organism killing another organism for food

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Competition

A chemical produced by a plant that is used to deter predation from herbivores

• Poison

• Herbicide

• Secondary Compound

• Primary Compound

Top predators are important to ecosystems because they decrease _______ and also increase _______

• biodiversity; competition

• competition; biodiversity

• populations; communities

• communities; populations

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

When two or more species live in a close long-term relationship

• Predation

• Competition

• Niche

• Symbiosis

A form of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Predation

• Parasitism

A form of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

A form of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

The general term for an organism in which another parasitic organism lives on or in.

• Host

• Client

• Cyst

• Symbiont