This is a form of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit from interacting with each other.
What is mutualism?
This is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
Single individuals called organisms living in the same area at the same time form these.
What are populations?
The atmosphere is composed of a mixture of gases needed for this.
What is respiration?
Which layer of the biosphere includes air and gases?
What is the atmosphere?
This is a form of symbiosis in which one organism benefits while the other is caused harm.
What is parasitism?
This is the first level of the food chain.
What are producers?
Populations of different species interact with each other in these.
What are communities?
What is population density?
Which sphere of the biosphere contains rocks and landforms?
What is the geosphere?
This is the form of symbiosis in which one organism benefits without affecting the host organism.
What is commensalism?
This is the largest amount of organisms that an environment can support and maintain.
What is carrying capacity?
Communities combine with the abiotic factors affecting them to form these.
What are ecosystems?
This reduces the number in the population.
What is a limiting factor?
What is the place where an organism lives called?
What is its habitat?
This refers to the interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.
What is symbiosis?
This is required for recycling matter.
What is energy?
A large region of plants and animals adapted to the soil and climate is called this.
What is a biome?
This refers to the arrangement of organisms in an area.
What is spacing?
What is an organism's role in its ecosystem?
What is its niche?
A flea on a dog is an example of what type of symbiosis?
What is parasitism?
One organism killing and feeding off another organism is called this.
What is predation?
All the ecosystems on Earth make up this.
What is the biosphere?
This is the maximum rate of population increase.
What is biotic potential?
What organism breaks down dead matter?
What is a decomposer?