Definitions
An environment that provides everything an organism needs to live, grown, and reproduce is called a ____
What is habitat
An _____ consists of all the living and nonliving factors in a particular area.
What is an ecosystem
A change in which an organism or species becomes better suited for its environment.
What is Adaptation?
Both species benefit in this form of symbiosis.
What is a Mutualism
If death rates go up and birth rates stay the same what happens to the population?
The population decrease.
The living parts of a habitat are called ____ factors.
The maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can support is called the _____ _____.
What is carrying capacity
Anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
What is a limiting factor?
One organism benefits in this relationship while the other is not affected.
What is Commensalism?
In order for a population to increase, which must be true? (Choose one.)
More individuals are being born than the number that are dying.
More individuals are dying than the number being born.
The number of individuals being born is equal to the number that are dying.
The correct answer is number one
The nonliving parts of an organisms habitat are the ____ factors.
What is Abiotic
An animal that eats other organisms is called a what?
What is a predator
The process in which organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is a Natural selection
One organism is hunted by another in this relationship
What is Predation
Give one possible reason other than predation that the rabbit population might decrease.
Maybe because the rabbits can't find food themselves and they end up dying because of that.
All members of one species living in a particular area form a ______.
What is population
An animal that other animals eat is called a what?
What is Prey
In this relationship, one organism is harmed while the other benefits.
What is Parasitism?
What is an example of Predation?
When a predator attacks it's food/prey
Make a prediction of what would happen to the fox population if a draught eliminated the rabbit's vegetation.
The foxes population would decrease because there food supply would not be enough for them to survive.
All the different populations that live in a certain area are called a _____
What is a community
An organisms role in its environment.
What is a Niche?
Organisms within a population or ecosystem contend for the same limited resources.
What is Competition.
What is an example of Commensalism
When one animal like a barnacle on a whale a barnacle gets benefited and the whale is not affected.
Why would a fox population decrease as the rabbit population decreased?
Because rabbits are there food supply and if there food supply is going low and they can't find food they will die.