Flash Card Directions

Please use the provided flashcards to memorize some of the important

vocabulary in this unit.
Write answer word (1
st
column on the bac! of all of the flashcards in
that row. "hen cut the flash cards out and try to line up the three bo#es
to complete each important vocabulary word with its name$ meanin%$
and picture.
&tart small with only a few$ %et really %ood at those$ and then add more
into your practice. 'ach time you master a small set by linin% up all
three add another in until they are all mastered.
(ovin% the cards around on a table ) clean surface is how these will help
you. *ust starin% at them ) tryin% to memorize them without movin% and
+umblin% will not be as helpful.
Individual
Organism with unique
DNA and cells
Population
Groups of similar
individuals who tend to
mate with each other
in a limited geographic
area.
Ecosystem he relationships of
populations with each
other and their
environment.
!ommunity
he relationships
"etween groups of
populations.
#iome
A regional ecosystem
characteri$ed "y
distinct types of
vegetation% animals.
#iosphere
he part of the earth
and its atmosphere in
which living organisms
e&ist.
#iosphere
!onsists of'
Atmosphere
(ithosphere
Ecosphere
)ydrosphere
)a"itat
A place an organism
lives.
Needs of
An
Organism
Air.
*ater.
+ood.
,helter.
,pace.
Niche
he place or function
of a given organism
within its ecosystem.
+ood *e"
A comple& networ- of
many interconnected
food chains and
feeding interactions.
Predator
An organism that lives
"y preying on other
organisms.
Prey
An animal hunted for
food.
!amouflage
An adaptation that allows the
animal to "lend in with its
environment to avoid "eing
detected
A"undance
.easurement of the
amount of a species.
,bundance
/elative
A"undance
he amount of each
species. .ust sum to 0
or 0112.
/elative
A"undance
Diversity
he variety or num"er
of -inds of species.
Diversity
*arning
colors
hese warn predators
that these colors are
dangerous or to&ic.
.imicry
he resem"lance of an
animal species to
another species or to
natural o"3ects.
&ymbiosis
A long term
relationship "etween
two or more different
species.
Parasitism
,ym"iosis 4
One organism "enefits
while the other is
harmed.
(utualism
,ym"iosis4
#oth organisms
"enefit.
Commensalism
,ym"iosis
One organism "enefits
and the other doesn5t
"enefit% or suffer
harm.
'#otic
&pecies
A species that have
"een introduced to an
ecosystem that are
not endemic to the
area. 6non4native7