Ecological Relationship Vocabulary

What do you call an animal that only eats plants?

• niche

• carnivore

• parasite

• herbivore

• predator

What is the general term used to describe the interaction between two different organisms that are living in close physical association?

• photosynthesis

• symbiosis

• habitat

• prey

• omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

This term describes a consumer that feeds only on other consumers - in other words, the 'opposite' of vegan…

• mutualsim

• niche

• prey

• autotroph

• carnivore

The animal in an ecological relationship that results in another animal being hunted, killed, and eaten…

• autotroph

• habitat

• predator

• herbivore

• producer

The non-living part of the natural environment where an animal, plant or other organism lives…

• niche

• habitat

• community

• ecosystem

• biosphere

An ecological symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is harmed…

• parasitism

• herbivore

• mutualism

• carnivore

• commensalism

This is the job or role of a specific organism within its habitat...

• producer

• prey

• carnivore

• niche

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What you would call an ecological symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one benefits, but the other is not helped or harmed?

• mutualsim

• predator

• commensalism

• parasitism

• herbivory

The name of the process that producers use to make their own food…

• respiration

• commensalism

• food chains

• photosynthesis

• symbiosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Another word for a plant or other producer that makes its own food using energy from sunlight…

• photosynthesis

• autotroph

• consumer

• carnivore

• herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3