Vocabulary Words Cycles in the Environment How Organisms Interact Changes in the Ecosystem Interactions in the Ecosystem
100
What is adaptation.
An inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?
100
What is carbon dioxide (Co2)
The gas that humans exhale.
100
What is biotic.
The living things in an ecosystem.

100
Recycle, reuse and reduce
The three R's
100
What is symbiosis.
When two species live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
200
What is ecosystem.
The interactions between living and non-living things in a particular environment?
200
What is evaporation
The process when a liquid turns to a gas.
200
What is a producer
The name of an organisms that uses the Sun's energy to make its own food?
200
What is succession
The gradual process by which some species replace other species in an ecosystem.
200
What is parasitism.
The relationship when one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
300
What is sustainability
Resources of nature are renewed as quickly as they are used.
300
What is precipitation and condensation
The two processes that return water to Earth in the water cycle.
300
What are plants.
Herbivores eat these types of organisms.
300
What is an introduced species.
An organisms that is not native or natural to an area?
300
What is a parasite.
The name of the organism that harms another organism in a symbiotic relationship.
400
What is niche
Role an organism has in an ecosystem?
400
What is evaporation and transpiration
The two processes move water up into the atmosphere?
400
What is a decomposer.
The name of the organisms that breaks grows on dead or waste material and recycles nutrients back into the ecosystem?
400
What is an indicator species.
The type of organisms that can help us monitor the health of an ecosystem?
400
What is commensalism
The relationship when neither partner gains or loses from the relationship.
500
What is transpiration
The process in which water that is taken in through a plant's roots evaporates from the plant's leaves, stem, and flowers.
500
What is acid rain.
This occurs when pollutants such as the burning of fossil fuels mix with water vapour.
500
What is a pyramid of numbers.
The model that shows the number of individual organisms at each level of a food chain.
500
What is physical, biological, chemical and environmental monitoring.
The different types of environmental monitoring.
500
What is mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
The three types of symbiosis.






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