Populations and Resources Unit Review

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What is a resource population?

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A resource population is the population that gets eaten by others.

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What happens to the deer population when the puma population increases?

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The size of the deer population will decrease.

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True or False: Within a population, organisms are always being born and dying.

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True.

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What is likely to happen to the fox population if the opossum population increases?

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The size of the fox population will decrease because the opossum population is taking more energy storage molecules from the rats.

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What does it mean when a population is stable?

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It means there are the same number of births as deaths.

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What is a predator?

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A predator is an organism that eats other organisms.

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What is prey?

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Prey is an organism that is eaten by predators.

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What is an ecosystem?

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An ecosystem is a community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system.

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What is carrying capacity?

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Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can support.

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What is a food chain?

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