Vocabulary
Food Chains & Webs
Ecosystem Levels
Community Interactions
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The maximum amount of living organisms that an ecosystem can sustain due to the birth/death rate being balanced.

What is a carrying capacity?

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What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer etc.?

What is 90%?

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Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area that interact with each other.

What is an ecosystem?

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Two or more organisms competing for the same resource.
What is competition?
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Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
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3 factors that help to define a biome.

What is a climate, vegetation, and precipitation?

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These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ predators.

What is apex?

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The term by which we refer to one individual living thing.

What is a organism?

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A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
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A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
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An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
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These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
What are autotrophs?
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Two or more organisms of similar or the same species that can coexist and breed together.

What is a population?

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A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
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The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
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Non-living factors in a community are called..
What is abiotic factors?
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These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
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Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth - including land, sky, and water ecosystems.

What is the biosphere?

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A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
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The failed experiment where researchers attempted to replicate the balance of biotic and abiotic factors in a glass dome.

What is Biosphere 2?
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An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
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This is a way to show how energy in a food web/chain is allocated or transferred.

What is an arrow?

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Two or populations of species groups living in the same ecosystem.

What is a community?

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An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
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An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
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