Ecology Unit Review S24

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What is biodiversity?

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A variety of organisms.

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What are organisms that break down and absorb nutrients from dead organisms?

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Decomposers.

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What are invasive species?

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Non-native species that are harmful to an ecosystem and can lack predators in the new environment.

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What does it mean when a population has reached its carrying capacity?

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The population has leveled off and is neither increasing nor decreasing.

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What is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment?

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Ecology.

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Define ecosystem.

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A community of living organisms and their interactions with their environment.

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What is a food chain?

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is a niche?

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The role or function of an organism or species within an ecosystem.

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What are producers?

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Organisms that produce their own food, typically through photosynthesis, such as plants.