5th Grade Review 2 Vocabulary

1. Commensalism—a type of symbiosis in which one species benefits from the relationship, while the other is unaffected 2. Mutualism—a type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from the relationship 3. Parasitism—a type of symbiosis in which one species benefits from the relationship while the other is harmed 4. Symbiosis—a close relationship between two species 5. Food Web—a model that shows how energy moves from one organism to another in an ecosystem. It is made up of many food chains. 6. Food chain—a model that shows how energy moves from one organism to another in an ecosystem 7. Carnivore—a consumer that eats mainly other animals 8. Decomposer—an organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms or waste produced by living things 9. Herbivore—a consumer that eats mainly plants 10. Omnivore—a consumer that eats both plants and animals 11. Producer—an organism that used the energy from sunlight to produce its own food 12. Community—populations of different species living together in the same ecosystem 13. Population—a group of organisms of the same species that lives in a certain area 14. Species—a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring 15. Ecosystem-a system made up of all the living and nonliving things in an area