Vocabulary
The Environment
Disasters/Symbiotic Relationships
Levels of Organization
Energy Flow
100

A hurricane producing a flood is preventing further growth in a flower garden is an example of what?

Limiting Factor

100
This is the place where an organism lives and gets its needs from.
Habitat
100

This disaster is when large areas of ground movement of rock, earth, or debris that fall, slide, or flow on slopes due to gravity

Landslide

100
This term describes all the different populations that live together in any given area
Community
100
These organisms have the ability to make their own food.
Producers
200

The number of individuals of a population in a specific area is referred to as

Population Density

200
The smallest unit of ecological organization is a(n)
Organism
200

How would you represent the symbiotic relationship known as commensalism? 

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200
This term describes all of the individuals of a species in a given area
Population
200
The grouping of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up a(n)
Food Web
300

What is the term for an organism's particular role, or how it makes its living?

Niche

300
The terms used to describe the living and non living parts of the ecosystem are
biotic and abiotic factors
300

What type of relationship does this represent?

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Mutualism 

300
One or more communities in an area and the abiotic factors, including water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, and soil.
Ecosystems
300
Organisms such as hyenas and vultures that feed on the bodies of dead organisms are called
Scavengers
400

What is the term for a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in an ecosystem?

Energy Pyramid 

400
A wolf leaving the pack in search of better feeding grounds would be an example of
emigration
400
These are a natural event in most grassland and forest ecosystems, and are an essential component in the life cycle of some trees.
Wildfires
400
The term used to describe a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
400
In an energy pyramid, this level has the most available energy.
1st or Bottom Level
500

When the prey population increases the predator population will

Increase

500
This is any environmental factor that would prevent a population from increasing.
Limiting Factor
500

What type of relationship does this represent? 

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Parasitism

500
The ecological levels of organization from smallest to largest.
organism->population->community->ecosystem->biome
500
If a snake eats a rabbit that eats grass, what trophic level would eat organism occupy?
Grass-> 1st level, Rabbit-> 2nd level, Snake-> 3rd level
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