Unit 5 Vocabulary 1 Animal Kingdom

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

• herbivore

• producer

• consumer

• carnivore

Definition: eats both plants and animals

• producer

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Definition: close interaction between species in which one species lives in or on the other

• ecosystem

• mutualism

• symbiotic relationship

• commensalism

Definition: one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

• predation

• mutualism

• symbiotic relationship

• commensalism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An organism that eats only plants

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• heterotrophic

An organism that makes its own food

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that cannot make its own food.

• autotrophic

• heterotrophic

• symbiotic

• multicellular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that eats only animals.

• consumer

• carnivore

• heterotrophic

• herbivore

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit

• mutualism

• symbiosis

• commensalism

• predation

Organisms that make their own food

• eukaryotic

• heterotrophic

• prokaryotic

• autotrophic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3