Ecological Relationships Flashcard

Front

What occurs when more than one individual or population tries to use the same limited resource?

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Competition

Front

What is the job or role of a specific organism within its habitat?

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Niche

Front

What is another word for a plant or other producer that makes its own food using energy from sunlight?

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Autotroph

Front

In a predator-prey relationship, when the population of the predator increases, what happens to the population of the prey?

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Decrease

Front

What is the name of the process that producers use to make their own food?

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Photosynthesis

Front

What is the term for organisms that cannot make their own food and must consume other organisms?

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Heterotrophs

Front

What type of relationship benefits one organism while the other is neither helped nor harmed?

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Commensalism

Front

What is the term for a relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another?

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Parasitism

Front

What is the term for the role of a species in its ecosystem, including its habitat and interactions with other organisms?

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Ecological niche

Front

What is the process called by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy?

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Photosynthesis