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Living Earth
Populations
Interactions With Communities
Vocab
Vocab
100
the top portion of Earth's crust, all the waters that cover Earth's surface, and the surrounding atmosphere
What is the biosphere?
100
highest biotic potential between a pumpkin and a peach?
What is a pumpkin?
100
Plant eaters
What are herbivores?
100
the place in which an organizm lives
What is a habitat
100
organisms that cannot make thor own energy-rich molecules
What are consumers?
200
all of the communities that live in an area and the nonliving features of their environment
What is an ecosystem?
200
two organisms that want/need the same resource
What is competition
200
use the Sun to make energy-rich molecules
What is a producer?
200
organisms that use an outside energy source, such as the Sun, to make energy-rich molecules
What are producers?
200
the study of interactions that occur among organisms and their environment
What is ecology?
300
all of the organisms in one species that live an area
What is a population?
300
two ways to measure a population
What is trap-mark-and release, and sample count
300
animals that eat other animals
What are carnivores?
300
the largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time
What is a carrying capacity?
300
anything that restricts the number of individuals in a population
What is a limiting factor?
400
all the populations that live in a n area
What is a community?
400
Two birds live in one m of a fifty m park. What is the estimated population of birds?
What is 100 birds?
400
eat plants and other animals
What are omnivores?
400
any close relationship between species
What is symbiosis?
400
a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected
What is commensalism?
500
consume dead organisms
What are decomposers?
500
two factors that might stop a population's exponential growth
What is competition and a limiting factor?
500
cannot make their own energy-rich molecules
What are consumers?
500
a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits but the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
500
how an organizm survives, including its habitat, how it obtains food and shelter, and how it avoids danger
What is a niche