vocabulary
- Adaptations- Changes made to a species over time to help them survive.
- Autotroph-Any living thing that creates its own food using energy (sunlight, or boiling deep sea vents.
- Carnivores- An animal that only eats meat.
- Grazing-A form of predation in which animals eat part of the prey without killing it.
- Habitat- the place where an animal lives and works.
- Herbivores-Animals that only eat plants.
- Heterotrophs-Animals that eat autotrophs.
- Interspecific Competition- Competition between species
- Intraspecific Competition-Competition within a species.
- Omnivores- animals that eat meat and plants.
- Primary consumers- the animals that eat producers.
- Producers-Anything (usually plants) that creates their food.
- Quaternary Consumers-Animals that eat tertiary consumers.
- Secondary Consumers-Animals that eat producers.
- Specialization- When competing species evolve differently so they can use different food sources.
- Symbiosis- Interactions between different organisms.
- Tertiary Consumers-Animals that eat secondary consumers.
- Top Predator-An animal with no predators at the top of the food chain.
- Trophic Level-Each level in a biological pyramid (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.).
- True Predation-the act of actually hunting or trapping your prey