Download Flash Card Directions – Please use the provided flashcards to

Flash Card Directions
– Please use the provided flashcards to memorize some of the important
vocabulary in this unit.
– Write answer word (1st column) on the back of all of the flashcards in
that row. Then cut the flash cards out and try to line up the three boxes
to complete each important vocabulary word with its name, meaning,
and picture.
– Start small with only a few, get really good at those, and then add more
into your practice. Each time you master a small set by lining up all
three add another in until they are all mastered.
– Moving the cards around on a table / clean surface is how these will help
you. Just staring at them / trying to memorize them without moving and
jumbling will not be as helpful.
Individual
Population
Ecosystem
Organism with unique
DNA and cells
Groups of similar
individuals who tend to
mate with each other
in a limited geographic
area.
The relationships of
populations with each
other and their
environment.
Community
Biome
Biosphere
The relationships
between groups of
populations.
A regional ecosystem
characterized by
distinct types of
vegetation, animals.
The part of the earth
and its atmosphere in
which living organisms
exist.
Biosphere
Consists of…
Atmosphere
Lithosphere
Ecosphere
Hydrosphere
Habitat
A place an organism
lives.
Needs of
An
Organism
Niche
Food Web
Predator
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Air.
Water.
Food.
Shelter.
Space.
The place or function
of a given organism
within its ecosystem.
A complex network of
many interconnected
food chains and
feeding interactions.
An organism that lives
by preying on other
organisms.
Prey
Camouflage
Abundance
Relative
Abundance
Diversity
An animal hunted for
food.
An adaptation that allows the
animal to blend in with its
environment to avoid being
detected
Measurement of the
amount of a species.
Abundance
The amount of each
species. Must sum to 1
or 100%.
Relative
Abundance
The variety or number
of kinds of species.
Diversity
Warning
colors
Mimicry
Symbiosis
Parasitism
These warn predators
that these colors are
dangerous or toxic.
The resemblance of an
animal species to
another species or to
natural objects.
A long term
relationship between
two or more different
species.
Symbiosis One organism benefits
while the other is
harmed.
Mutualism
Commensalism
Exotic
Species
SymbiosisBoth organisms
benefit.
Symbiosis
One organism benefits
and the other doesn’t
benefit, or suffer
harm.
A species that have
been introduced to an
ecosystem that are
not endemic to the
area. (non-native)