Midterm Final Review

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What is the organized process to test a hypothesis?

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Experiment

Front

True or False: Carnivores and omnivores are able to occupy more than one trophic level.

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True

Front

What change would have the MOST severe consequences for a food chain?

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A drastic decrease in rainfall, causing a drought.

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What are factors that limit the size of a population, such as water, food, and space?

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Limiting factors

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What is an educated guess about the solution to a problem that must be testable and falsifiable?

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Hypothesis

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What is the term for the maximum population size that an environment can sustain?

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Carrying capacity

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What is the term for the organisms that produce their own food, typically through photosynthesis?

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Producers

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What is the role of decomposers in an ecosystem?

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Decomposers break down dead organic matter, recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.

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What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?

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Biotic factors are living components of an ecosystem, while abiotic factors are non-living components.

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.