Interactions between Organisms

two organisms working together to survive

• competition

• predation

• cooperation

• mutualism

Type T for True or F for False.

Producers get their energy by eating other organisms.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

break down dead organic matter

• energy pyramid

• food chain

• food web

• decomposers

Type T for True or F for False.

A group of vultures eating a dead organism and bellowing loudly to attract a coyote to join is an example of cooperation.

the interaction between two animals by which one animal eats the other

• competition

• predation

• cooperation

• mutualism

the path of food energy from the Sun to producers then to consumers

• energy pyramid

• food chain

• food web

• decomposers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem

• energy pyramid

• food chain

• food web

• decomposers

Tags

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

• cooperation

when an organism survives on a host organism and causes harm to the host

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• cooperation

Type T for True or F for False.

The snake eats the field mouse.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4