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Ecology
7th Grade Science
Question | Answer |
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Factors in an environment that are non-living. | abiotic |
Organisms in an environment that are living or were once living. | biotic |
Organisms that cannot make their own food. | consumers |
Organisms that can make their own food using the Sun's energy through photosynthesis. | producers |
A series of overlapping food chains that exist in an ecosystem. | food web |
The study of interactions among organisms and their environment. | ecology |
A large region with plants and animals that are adapted to the soil and climate of that region. | biome |
A way of showing how energy in the form of food passes from one organism to another. | food chain |
Any close interaction between two or more species. | symbiosis |
The part of the Earth that supports life. | biosphere |
This is made up of a biotic community and the abiotic factors that affect it | ecosystem |
Groups of populations that interact with each other in a given area form this. | community |
All the members of one species that live together at the same time and in the same area. | population |
The role, or job, of an organism in the ecosystem. | niche |
The place where an organism lives. | habitat |