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Everything is Connected
Everything is Connected Part 2
Living Things Need Energy
Living Things Need Energy Part 2
Types of Interactions
100
describes living parts in the environment
What is biotic?
100
describes the non-living parts of the environment
What is abiotic?
100
eats only plants
What is an herbivore?
100
organisms which eat producers
What are consumers?
100
the largest population an environment can support at any given time
What is carrying capacity?
200
is the study of the interactions of living organisms with each other and their environment
What is ecology?
200
group of organisms of the same species living in a specific geographical area
What is population?
200
eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
200
Grass is eaten by a prairie dog. The prairie dog is eaten by a coyote. This is an example of
What is a food chain?
200
this occurs when two or more individuals or populations try to use the same resource
What is competition?
300
all the populations of living organisms which live in the same habitat
What is a community?
300
a community of organisms and their abiotic environment
What is an ecosystem?
300
eats both producers and consumers
What is an omnivore?
300
a diagram which shows feeding relationships between all organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
a resource which is so scarce that it limits the size of a population
What is a limiting factor?
400
this is the part of Earth where life exists
What is the biosphere?
400
What word describes the mammals, fish, birds, and plants that live in an environment?
What is biotic?
400
organisms which gain energy by breaking down dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
400
a diagram which shows an ecosystem's energy loss
What is an energy pyramid?
400
A beneficial association between coral and algae is an example of
What is mutualism ?
500
a caterpillar, a deer, and a rabbit would all compete for this resource
What is grass? or What is a producer?
500
abiotic factor which provides all energy for an ecosystem
What is the sun?
500
organisms that make their own food from sunlight
What is a producer?
500
One food web arrow goes from a prairie dog to a coyote, showing that
the coyote eats the prairie dog
500
a long-term change which occurs in two species because of their close interaction
What is co-evolution?