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ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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what is a community? | a group of different populations or organisms that live in a ecosystem |
what is a population? | all of one kind of organism that lives in a particular area |
what contains living and nonliving things? | ecosystem and environment |
what are the living parts of an ecosystem called? | biotic |
what are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem called? | abiotic |
in what two ways can living organisms be grouped in? | population and community |
what are the two main types of ecosystems? | terrestrial and aquatic |
what does terrestrial mean? | land |
what does aquatic mean? | water |
what are the 2 main types of land? | grassland and forest |
what are the 3 main types of water? | lakes and ponds,oceans,and estuaries |
what is a microorganism? | it is something too small to see and can be multi or single cell |
what is the predator\prey relationship? | predator eats prey and prey gets eaten by predators |
what is the parasite\host relationship? | parasite has to stay on host for survival and host has to support the parasite while the parasite is on the host |
what are some things that might cause decreases in population? | pollution, drought, deforestation, and climate change |
what is something that would cause increasing in population? | more plants in an area means that the population there of herbivores would go up |