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• Bio = Life
• Living Things
• Trees
• Fish
• Grass
• Insects
*All plants,
animals,
bacteria, fungi,
and insects
• Nonliving
things
necessary for
life
• Water
• Sunlight
• Space
• Air/wind
• Dirt/rocks
• Temperature
• Altitude
• Nutrients
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Organism
• An individual animal, plant, or
single-celled living thing.
Ex: 1 goldfish
Population
• More than 1 organism in
an ecosystem that are
the same.
Ex: many goldfish
Community
• All biotic factors in the
same ecosystem.
Ex: many goldfish, water snails,
water grasses, water bugs
Ecosystem
• All abiotic and biotic factors
in the same area. They all
depend on each other.
Ex: goldfish, water snails,
water grasses, water bugs,
water, sunlight, dirt/rocks, air
Biosphere
•
All of the ecosystems on
Earth thriving side-byside
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• An animal
that naturally
preys on other
animals.
Ex: lions
wolves
cats
dinosaurs
• An animal that
is hunted and
killed by
another for
food.
Ex: rabbits
mice
fish
• An organism that
lives in or on
another organism
and benefits by
deriving nutrients
at the expense of
the host.
Ex: tapeworm
flea/tick
heartworm
ringworm
• An animal or
plant that a
parasite lives on
or in.
Ex: dog/flea
cat/heartworm
human/ringworm
• An organism that
generally obtains
food by feeding
on another
organism; a
heterotroph
Ex: Primary – rabbit
Secondary – fox
Tertiary - wolf
• An autotrophic
organism capable
of producing its
own food; a plant
Ex: tree
grass
flowers
algae