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Vocabulary
Relationships
Biomes
Cycles
Levels Of Organization
100
Ecology
What is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment?
100
Mutualism
What is a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit?
100
Desert
What is a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all?
100
Water Cycle
What is a cycle that includes evaporation?
100
Species
What is the first level of organization?
200
Habitat
What is the place where an organism lives out its life?
200
Competition
What is something that occurs when organisms of the same or different species compete for something?
200
Tundra
What is a vast treeless zone lying between the ice cap and the timberline of North America and Eurasia and having a permanently frozen subsoil?
200
Carbon/Oxygen Cycle
What is a cycle that includes respiration?
200
Community
What is the third level of organization?
300
Ecosystem
What is a collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their abiotic or physical surroundings?
300
Parasitism
What is a symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is harmed?
300
Taiga
What is the coniferous forests extending across much of subarctic North America and Eurasia, bordered by tundra to the north and steppe to the south?
300
Phosphorous Cycle
What is a cycle that forms DNA & RNA?
300
Ecosystem
What is a collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their abiotic or physical surroundings
400
Intraspecific Competition
What is competition between members of the same species?
400
Commensalism
What is a symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither harmed nor benefited?
400
Temperate Grassland
What is land, such as a prairie, on which grass predominates?
400
Nitrogen Cycle
Which cycle recycles the building block for protein and DNA?
400
Biome
What is a group of ecosystems
500
Biotic Potential
What is the highest rate of reproduction possible?
500
Predation
What is an interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism?
500
Tropical Rainforest
What is a dense forest with a high annual precipitation?
500
Phosphorous Cycle
Which cycle does not enter the atmosphere?
500
Biosphere
What is a portion of the earth that supports life, extends above the Earth to the bottom of the ocean?