front 1 an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals | back 1 Producer |
front 2 an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food | back 2 consumer |
front 3 organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms | back 3 decomposer |
front 4 the ability of an ecosystem to resist changes in the presence of disturbances | back 4 stable ecosystem |
front 5 different species of plants and animals living together in the same community at the same time | back 5 coexistence |
front 6 when a group works together to the benefit of all the members | back 6 cooperation |
front 7 the interaction between organisms or species that use the same resources in which the health of one is negatively affected by the presence of the other | back 7 competition |
front 8 a certain type of relationship primarily found between two animal species in which one hunts, kills, and feeds off the other | back 8 predation |
front 9 an animal that hunts and eats another animal | back 9 predator |
front 10 an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal | back 10 prey |
front 11 indicates the greatest number of any species that can indefinitely exist within a specific habitat without threatening the existence of other species also living in the habitat | back 11 carrying capacity |
front 12 The biological processes that enable plants and animals to thrive successfully in their environments | back 12 adaptations |
front 13 a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either | back 13 commensalism |
front 14 a certain type of non-mutual relationship found between two different species in which one organism benefits at the expense of the other organism | back 14 parasitism |
front 15 a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives off the other and both organisms benefit | back 15 mutualism |
front 16 relationship between two species that interact in ways that influence each other's evolution | back 16 symbiosis |
front 17 relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other | back 17 symbiotic relationship |