A natural cause that controls a population in an ecosystem
Limiting Factor
100
Organisms that make their own food from the sun are called?
producers
100
A group of the same organisms in an area.
Population
100
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is unaffected.
Commensalism
100
All the living factors in an environment.
Biotic
200
The maximum size a population can reach in an area
Carrying Capacity
200
Organisms that have to eat other animals to get energy are called?
consumers
200
All of the different populations living together in the same area.
Community
200
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism gets harmed.
Parasitism
200
What is the term used to describe a mouse that has been caught by an eagle?
Prey
300
When organisms fight over available resources in an area
Competition
300
Organisms that eat both plants and animals.
omnivores.
300
The total area taken up by living things on our planet.
Biosphere
300
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
Mutualism
300
Changes in a population in order to make living with limiting factors easier.
Adaptations
400
A lack of Food/Water, Shelter, Space, and Nesting Sites, Predators, Disease, and Age are all examples of what?
Limiting Factors
400
An arrow in a food web goes from a grasshopper to a bird. What does this show?
The bird eats the grasshopper (energy flows from the g.hopper to the bird)
400
Rocks, sunshine, water, and temperature are all considered _______ parts of an environment.
Abiotic.
400
A clown fish brings food to the sea anemone; the sea anemone stings and kills any predators except for the clown fish. What type of Symbiosis is this?
Mutualism
400
Scientists studying all the populations of species living and interacting in an area are studying the _______.
Community.
500
Explain how limiting factors affect an ecosystem's carrying capacity.
Organisms need resources to survive - if resources (food/shelter/water/etc) become scarce, members of the population will die out.
500
Explain what would happen to a food web if the producers were to die out.
The consumers would die out because they ran out of food.
500
An environmental study explaining the way temperature, water quality, and minerals affect the animals in a salt marsh would be referring to what level of organization?
Ecosystem
500
A human being is infected with Malaria. The malaria reproduces inside red blood cells and rips them apart when the babies are born. What type of symbiosis is this?
Parasitism.
500
Human's have developed the ability to plug a sore whenever they get cut. A mosquito has developed chemicals in its saliva to keep its host's blood from scabbing as it's feeding. This is an example of...