Crash course forSpecies Relationships and

Interaction

By: Maggie, Chasidy, Wade, Matt, Juan, and Alex

Objective

• Students will be able to understand the species, their relationships, and how they interact with each other.

Predator

An animal that hunts animals and eats them

The shark is the predator

Prey

• An animal that other animals hunt and eat

It shows shrimp as food or as prey

Competition

• The struggle between two or more living things that depend on the same limited resources.

The wolves are fight or having a competition

Cooperation

• A term used to describe an interaction between two or more living things in which they are said to work together.

The elephants are working together

Types of Symbiosis

• Commensalism• Mutualism• Parasitism

Commensalism

• An interaction between two species in which one species benefits without harming the other.

• A type of symbiosis

They are working together because the anemone is making a home for a clownfish.

Mutualism• An interaction between two species in which

both benefit; a type of symbiosis

The bees are helping spread pollen between the flowers.

Parasitism

• A relationship between two species in which one species is harmed while the other benefits; a type of symbiosis

The zebra is being harmed but the baby lion cub is benefiting. The lion gets to eat but the zebra dies

Decomposer

• An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter.

Scavenger

• A consumer that feeds on only dead animals.

Producers

• An organism that captures energy from sunlight and transforms it into chemical energy that is stored in energy rich carbon compounds. Producers are a source of food for other organisms.

Consumers

• A living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things in a food chain; Consumers are also called heterotrophs

Bibliography

Larvalsubjects.wordpress.comBlog.foodnetwork.comRedorbit.comIcarly.wikia.comPhysicalgeography.net Wildencounters.netEdupic.netFcps.edu

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