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24 Cards in this Set
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young wasp are eating the tomato hornworm that is their host. what is the an example of?
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Parasitism
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in a food web arrows point in just one direction because they show
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how energy goes to the anima; that is eating
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after one species disappears,the other species in the ecosystem
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are thrown out of balance
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in which type of symbiosis do organisms help each other
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mutualism
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the plants a ladybug lives on,theaphids the ladybug eats, and the birds that would eat the ladybug are all
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biotic elemenrs of an ecosystem
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herbivores,carnivores, and omnivores are all
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consumers
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animals that eat meat and vegetables are
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omnivores
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rocks,temperature, and water are what kind of things?
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abiotic
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what level of organization comes after population
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community
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when is food a limiting factor
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when a population is large
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what is biotic
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organisms that live and interact with each other
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the study of the interaction of organisms with one another and with their enviroment
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ecology
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a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific goegraphical area
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population
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all of the population of specices that live in the same habitat and interact with each other
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community
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a community of organisms and the abiotic enviroment of the community
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ecosystem
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a close, long-term relationship between two or more species
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symbiosis
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a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
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food web
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a diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another
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food chain
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the enviroment can be organized into different levels...
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1st-organism-individual
2nd-population-similar organisms 3rd-community-diff.populations 4th-ecosystem-the comm. and its abiotic enviroment 5th-biosphere-contaims all of the ecosystems |
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living things are _____ parts of the enviroment
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biotic
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nonliving thimgs are____ parts of the enviroment
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abiotic
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what are the 3 groups of living things
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producers, consumers, decomposers
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the process of making food from sunlight is called
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photosynthesis
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what are the 2 main food webs on earth
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land and aquatic
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