SE Vocab

What is competition?

• When two or more populations use the same resource

• When one organism hides from another

• When a population increases in size

• When a predator hunts its prey

What is a consumer population?

• A group of plants in an area

• A population that eats organisms from another population

• A population that breaks down dead material

• A population that makes its own food

What is an indirect effect?

• The disappearance of a species

• A direct interaction between predator and prey

• A result caused by an unrelated organism

• A chain of effects caused by one original change

What is a resource population?

• A population that breaks down waste

• A population that hunts other animals

• A population that competes for space

• A population that is eaten by another population

What does stability mean in an ecosystem?

• When something stays mostly the same over time

• When animals move to a new ecosystem

• When one species takes over an area

What is a consumer?

• An organism that lives off sunlight

• An organism that decomposes waste

• An organism that eats to get energy storage molecules

• An organism that makes its own food

What is a decomposer?

• A predator that hunts prey

• A plant that feeds herbivores

• An organism that breaks down dead matter for energy

• An organism that makes glucose from sunlight

What is an ecosystem?

• A. A single organism's habitat

• B. A group of populations of the same species

• C. All the animals in a forest

• D. All the living and nonliving things interacting in an area

What is a producer?

• An organism that can make its own energy storage molecules

• An organism that hunts for food

• An organism that eats other organisms

• An organism that breaks down food

What is camouflage?

• A way animals move quickly

• A loud noise made by animals to scare predators