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Chpt 1 Enviro. Sci
Sapulapa HS Enviro. Sci 2012
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nonliving parts of an ecosystem | abiotic factors |
| living part of an ecosystem | biotic factors |
| place where an organism lives | habitat |
| relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. | commensalism |
| a group of interacting population of different species. | community |
| the relationship between species that attempt to the same limited resource | competition |
| two or more species evolving in response to each other. | coevolution |
| an inherited trait that increase an organism's chance of survival and reproduction in a certain environment. | adaptation |
| a change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next. | evolution |
| all living organism in a certain area as well as their as their physical environment. | ecosystem |
| the irreversible disappearance of a population or a species. | extinction |
| oxygen, water, sunlight, space and climate. | abiotic factor |
| organism from which a parasite takes it nourishment | host |
| a relationship between two species in which both benefit | mutualism |
| term used to describe the unequal survival and reproductionthe presence or absence of particular inherited traits of organisms that results from the presence or absence of particular inherited traits. | natural selection |
| an organism's way of life | niche |
| an individual living thing | organism |
| a group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place. | population |
| organism that lives in or on another organism and feeds on it without immediately killing it. | parasite |
| organism that eats and kill and eats another organism. | predator |
| organism that is killed and eaten by a predator. | prey |
| a group of organism that are able to produce fertile offspring and resemble each other in appearance, behavior, and internal structure. | species |
| competition, predation, populations and symbiotic relationship. | biotic factors |
| a covey of quail | population |
| a covey of quail, a colony of rabbits,and a prairie field. | community |
| flowers that can be pollinated by only one insect species | coevolution |
| a bird building a nest and hunting for food | niche |
| a beavers dam and creek | habitat |
| a bird and a grasshopper | predation |
| two whitetail bucks fighting for a doe. | competition |
| a cowbird on the back of a bull eating insects. | mutualism |
| the tapeworm inside a host | parasite |
| the dog with a tick on its neck. | host |
| a mouse that is being eaten by a hawk | prey |
| the study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment. | ecology |
| a pack of wolves | population |
| a coral reef | ecosystem |
| a pond | community |
| the layer around the Earth in which life occurs naturally. | biosphere |
| disappearance of species | extinction |
| organism that can produce fertile offsping | species |
| all biotic and abiotic factors in a given area | ecosystem |
| inherited trait that increases odds of survival | adapation |
| change in the genetic characteristics of a population over many generations. | evolution |
| unequal survival and reproduction | natural selection |
| organism attempt to use same resources. | competition |
| largest environmental part of earth | biosphere |
| plants | producers |
| consumer that can eat only other consumers | carnivore |
| consumer that can eat only producers | herbivore |
| plant eater | herbivore |
| meat eater | carnivore |
| consumer that can eat both plants and animals. | omnivore |
| self feeding organism that obtains its nutrients by synthesis from the environment. | autotroph |
| consumer organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms | heterotroph |
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