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Is it living?
Cycles Galore
Key Terms
Hodge Podge
100
This animal eats both meat and plants.
What is an omnivore?
100
Anything that is living or was once living.
What is a biotic factor?
100
This cycle shows us how water flows through our atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
100
The maximum number of organisms that an area can support year after year.
What is carrying capacity?
100
In this relationship, the organism called the host is hurt.
What is parasitism?
200
This consumer is considered the 2nd in line in a food chain behind producers and primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
200
This is what is sometimes referred to as SWATS (Soil,Water, Air, Temperature, Sunlight).
What are abiotic factors?
200
This cycle is directly tied to global warming.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
The struggle between two or more organisms for resources
What is competition?
200
These levels include names like primary consumer and tertiary consumer?
What are trophic levels?
300
Primary consumers eat these.
What is a producer?
300
The smallest unit of ecology that contains abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
300
Bacteria "fix" this element found in the atmosphere so that plants and animals can use it.
What is nitrogen?
300
Very rapid growth. Birth rate greatly outweighs death rate.
What is exponential growth?
300
The curve of this type of growth looks like an "S" due to the line going horizontal near the carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?
400
This flows from producers to consumers.
What is energy?
400
This factor can reproduce, but requires a host cell to replicate its DNA and assemble its "offspring".
What is a virus?
400
Photosynthesis is part of this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
400
This could be weather, predators, time...anything that puts a limit on the size of the population.
What is a limiting factor?
400
This type on organism interaction occurs when one organism hunts and eats another organism?
What is predation?
500
This is a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
500
This concept is based on the number of species present in a community.
What is biodiversity?
500
Precipitation and condensation are part of this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
500
Number of a single species living in an ecosystem at one time.
What is a population?
500
In a food web, this is the most important type of organism.
What is a producer?
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