Populations and Resources Amplify Vocabulary

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What is a resource population?

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A population that is eaten by organisms from another population.

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What is a predator/prey relationship?

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A predator depends on its prey for getting its energy molecules (fats, carbohydrates, and proteins).

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What defines a consumer population?

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A consumer population is a population that eats organisms from another population.

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What is competition in ecological terms?

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When two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source.

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What is a population?

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A group of the same type of organism living in the same area.

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What is a producer in an ecosystem?

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An organism that can make its own food, typically through photosynthesis.

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of living organisms interacting with their environment.

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What is biodiversity?

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The variety of different types of life found in an ecosystem.

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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.