Interaction between Organisms

A diagram that shows the total amount of energy contained within each trophic level

• Commensalism

• Autotroph

• Energy Pyramid

• Trophic Level

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that gets its energy by eating secondary consumers

• Autotroph

• Tertiary Consumer

• Competition

• Trophic Level

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When more than one individual or population in an ecosystem relies on the same limited resources 

• Competition

• Commensalism

• Heterotroph

• Mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

An organism that must consume other organisms for energy

• Commensalism

• Autotroph

• Parasitism

• Heterotroph

A relationship between organisms of different species where one organism benefits at the expense of the other

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Autotroph

An organism that makes its own food

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Tertiary Consumer

• Competition

The interaction between two animals in which one animal eats the other

• Mutualism

• Autotroph

• Competition

• Predation

A relationship between organisms or species that is helpful to both

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Competition

The position an organism occupies on the food web

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Trophic Level

• Tertiary Consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An interaction between organisms or species that is helpful to one but neither helpful nor harmful to the other 

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Predation