Life Science Terms
A living or once living part of the environment.
Biotic
What term describes the importance of having many different species within an ecosystem?
Biodiversity
Organisms that go through photosynthesis are called...
Producers
What is it called when two species must fight over the same resources?
Competition
What does the N specifically stand for in MRS GREN? Only the exact response will be accepted.
Nutrition
Nonliving parts of an environment.
Abiotic
What term describes the maximum population size of a species that a population can sustain over time?
Carrying Capacity
What type of organism is a vulture (specifically)?
Scavenger
Organisms have specialized structures to help them survive and...
Reproduce
What do the two R's stand for in MRS GREN.
Reproduction and Respiration
All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment.
Ecosystem
What is the one resource that can impact carrying capacity that is not listed here.
Food, Water, Shelter
Space
When an organism dies, we rely on what type of organisms to break it down?
Decomposers
What term states that all living things are made up of at least one cell?
Cell Theory
A baby turning into an adult over the course of many years represents what part of MRS GREN?
Growth
The study of how living and nonliving things interact.
Ecology
What is the name of a species that help to hold an ecosystem together?
Keystone Specieis
Species that eat species that go through photosynthesis are called?
Primary Consumers / Consumers
What cell do animals and plants both have, but it is way bigger in plants?
Vacuoles
Sweating represents what part of MRS GREN?
Excretion
A place where an organism makes its home. It meets all the environmental conditions an organism needs to survive.
Habitat
The direction of energy flow
How many atoms are in the reactants of photosynthesis?
36
Genetics impact growth, but changes in the ______ can also impact how much an individual grows.
Environment