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| the study of interactions between organisms and the environment |
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| living parts of the environment |
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| what are abiotic factors? |
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| nonliving parts of the environment |
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| an organism that creates its own food using energy from sunlight |
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| organisms that eat other organisms to obtain energy |
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| What are the four types of consumers? |
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herbivore- eat plants
carnivore-eat animals
omnivore- both plants and animals
scavengers- eats dead animals |
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| organisms that obtain energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms |
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| What do food chains represent? |
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| they represent the flow of energy from one organism to the next |
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| WHat is the difference between a food web and a food chain? |
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| a food web shows multiple connections and a food chain is just one path |
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| the environment in which an organism lives |
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| the role that a species has in its environment |
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| What is a limiting factor? |
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| any biotic or abiotic factor that becomes scare thus restricting population size |
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| what is carrying capacity? |
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| the largest population size that an environment can support |
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| when 2 or more individuals or populations trying to use the same resource |
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| what does intraspecific mean? |
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| what does interspecific mean? |
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| between different species |
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| an organism that feeds on another organism |
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| an organism that is fed on |
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| it is a relationship in which there is a close and permanent association between organisms of different species |
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| what are the 3 types of symbiosis? |
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1. commensalism
2. mutalism
3. parasitism |
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| when both organisms benifit from the interaction |
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| when one organism benefits while the other is unaffected |
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| one organism benefits while the other is negatively impacted (parasite and host) |
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| What does the word alien mean when you say alien species? |
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| it is an organism that makes a home in a new part of the world and often causes harm to the native environment and species |
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| the wise use of and preservation of the Earth's natural resources (reduce, reuse, recycle) |
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| WHat does it mean to maintain biodiversity? |
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| to protect food webs and ecosystems |
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