A ____________ is all the interacting populations in a specified area.
A community
100
The sequence of organisms that eat on another is a ____________________.
What is a food chain.
100
The theoretical unlimited growth of a population over time is called the ___________ _____________.
What is the reproductive potential.
100
_______________ in a population helps the population survive whent the environment changes.
What is variation.
200
What is an organism's habitat?
Where is lives - the place where it can meet all of its requirements.
200
An _______________ is a system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified area.
Ecosystem
200
All the feeding relationships in an ecosystem define the _________ ___________ for that system.
What is the food web.
200
A __________ _______________ is any biotic or abiotic component of the ecosystem that controls the population size.
What is limiting factor.
200
__________ are the basic units of heredit carried by chromosomes in the nucleus of every cell.
What are genes.
300
Which type of bugs have a predictable life cycle?
Milkweed Bugs
300
Which type of ecosystem functions in water?
An aquatic ecosystem.
300
Energy-rich organic matter that organisms need for life.
What is food.
300
Similar _____________ occur in areas of similar abiotic conditions on Earth.
What are ecosystems.
300
An organism's particular combination of paired alleles is its ____________.
What is genotype.
400
A kind of organism that is different from other kinds is a _________.
What is a species.
400
Which type of system functions on land?
A terrestrial system.
400
Energy is measured in _________________.
What is kilocalories.
400
_______________ is the range of expression of a feature in a population.
What is variation.
400
_____________ ______________ is the process by which the individuals best adapted to their environment tend to survive and pass their traits to subsequent generations.
What is natural selection.
500
A ____________ is all the interacting individuals of one kind in an area.
Population
500
What is a web of interactions and relationships among the organisms and abiotic factors in an area?
What is an ecosystem.
500
In ______________, food is made from water and carbon dioxide with light.
What is photosynthesis.
500
An _____________ is any trait of an organism that helps it survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is adaptation.
500
The traits produced by the paired alleles that create a genotype result in the ____________.