Environmental Science Chapter 8 Review

Arrangement of a population within a given space

• population

• dispersion

• commensalism

• limiting resource

A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place

• population

• carrying capacity

• commensalism

• competition

Interaction in which one organ-ism feeds upon another organism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation

• niche

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Birth rate minus death rate

• niche

• dispersion

• growth rate

• population

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Organisms attempt to use same resources

• carry capcity

• competition

• dispersion

• limiting resource

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Interaction in which one organism benefits and the other organism is unaffected

• commensalism

• parasitism

• niche

• predation

Maximum population an ecosystem can support indefinitely

• dispersion

• commensalism

• carry capacity

• population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Factor that determines the carrying capacity of an ecosystem

• growth rate

• population

• limiting resource

• competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Three lampreys attached to a fish and sucking its body fluids for food

• commensalism

• predation

• parasitism

• dispersion

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Which of the following is not an example of exponential growth?

• rabbit populations after being introduced to Australia

• reindeer of the Probilof Islands after eating most of the lichens

• a bank account that earns interest

• mold appearing on bread overnight