Populations and Resources Amplify Vocabulary

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What is the study of interactions of organisms with each other and their environment?

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Ecology

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What type of scientist studies living organisms and their interactions?

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Biologist

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What do we call a population that is eaten by organisms from another population?

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Resource population

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What term describes all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area?

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Ecosystem

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What are living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria, called?

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Organisms

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

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Niche

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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 process by which plants use sunlight to make food?

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Photosynthesis

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What do we call the variety of different species in a given area?

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Biodiversity

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

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Population

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