Ecology and Science Skills Review

Front

What is the term for where an organism lives?

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Habitat

Front

What is the term for an animal that hunts and consumes other organisms?

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Predator

Front

What is the term for the role an organism plays in its environment?

Back

Niche

Front

What is the term for the community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system?

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Ecosystem

Front

What is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight?

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Photosynthesis

Front

What is the term for organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms?

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Decomposers

Front

What is the term for a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed?

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Commensalism

Front

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

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Carrying Capacity

Front

What is the term for the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem?

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Biodiversity

Front

What is the term for a group of individuals of the same species living in the same area?

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Population