Ecological Relationships Review

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What is a predator?

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An animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals.

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What is prey?

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An animal that is hunted, killed, and eaten by a predator.

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Define the term 'autotroph'.

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An organism that produces its own food, typically through photosynthesis.

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What is a producer in an ecosystem?

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An organism that can make its own food, usually plants.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that eats other organisms for energy.

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Describe the predator/prey relationship.

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A relationship where one organism (the predator) hunts and eats another organism (the prey).

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What is the producer/consumer relationship?

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A relationship where producers (like plants) provide energy for consumers (like animals) by being eaten.

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Define parasitism.

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A relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another, often harming it.

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What is mutualism?

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A relationship where both organisms benefit from the interaction.

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Explain commensalism.

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A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.