Relationships in Ecosystems

A limited supply of food and shelter in the same habitat will lead to -

• mutualism
• parasitism
• competition
• environmental changes

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What is a predator?

• Neither
• An organism that is consumed
• An organism that does the consuming

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What is prey?

• An organism that is consumed
• An organism that consumes
• neither

Plants need light, water, and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.  This is an example of an organism interacting with -

• biotic factors
• food webs
• abiotic factors
• dominant factors

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Nonliving factors that affect the ecosystem; includes light, space, temperature, shelter, water, and soil composition

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

• Rocks

• Biodiversity

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What are living, or produced by living things called?

• Biotic Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Organisms

• Reproduction

When two or more individuals or populations attempt to obtain a single resource.

• Competitive Interaction

• Biodiversity

• Competition

• Dependent Interaction

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A self-contained living thing.

• Organism

• Biotic Factor

• Primary Consumer

• Producer

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The interaction between two animals in which one animal eats the other.

• Predatory Interaction

• Big Mac

• Food Web

• Species

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A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation

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