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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the study of the interactions of organisms with each other and with their physical environments? | Ecology |
| What do you call the portion of earth that supports life? | Biosphere |
| What do you call all of the living organisms that inhabit an environment? | Biotic Factors |
| Non-living factors in an environment including temperature, water, sunlight, wind, rocks and soil | Abiotic |
| What is a group of organisms that inter breed and live in the same place at the same time? | Population |
| what is a collection of interacting populations | Community |
| What do you call a roll a species plays in a community? | Niche |
| What is the place where an organism lives out its life called? | Habitat |
| The next higher level of organization is made up of interactions among populations in a community and the communities physical surroundings or abiotic factors is called what? | Eco system |
| Orderly natural changes within communities of an eco system are called what? | Succession |
| What is a stable mature community that under goes little or no succession called? | Climax Community |
| What are large groups of eco systems that share the same kind of climax community called? | Biome |
| What is used as a model to show energy levels and how it moves. | Food Chain |
| What is a consumer that feeds directly on a producer called? | Herbivore |
| What is a consumer that feeds on consumers? | Carnivore |
| What eats both plants and animals? | Omnivore |
| What do you call all the possible feeding relationships in an ecosystem | Food Web |
| What shows the amount of energy you get in certain foods? | Pyramid of energy |
| What will continue to expand faster and faster? | Exponential growth curve |
| What do you call the optimum number of organisms an environment can support? | Carrying capacity |
| What do you call a factor that depends on the size of a population. Like competition, disease or predators. | Density dependent limiting factor |
| What do you call a factor that effects all population regardless of size like weather, natural disasters and human activity? | Density independent factors |
| What keeps dense plants from building up and obtains energy from dead organisms? | Decomposers |
| What is the series of physical and biological process called? | Nutrient cycle |
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