8SCI: Relationships in Ecosystems Review

Need for systems to work together to accomplish various tasks

• Competitive interaction

• Mutually beneficial interactions

• Predatory interaction

• Interdependent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A system comprising biotic and abiotic factors of an environment

• Competitive interaction

• Predatory interaction

• Interdependent

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

• Competitive interaction

• Mutually beneficial interactions

• Predatory interaction

• Interdependent

An interaction that is helpful to both organisms

• Competitive interaction

• Mutually beneficial interactions

• Predatory interaction

• Interdependent

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An interaction during which one animal eats another

• Competitive interaction

• Mutually beneficial interactions

• Predatory interaction

• Interdependent

Predatory interactions may _______________ the number of organisms

• Competitive

• Eliminate

• Reduce

• Dependent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Predatory interactions may _______________ whole populations of organisms

• Competitive

• Eliminate

• Reduce

• Dependent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Mutually beneficial interactions may become so ______________________ that each organism requires the other for survival.

• Interdependent

• Competitive

• Mutually beneficial

• Dependent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Although the species involved in these ___________________, __________________, and _______________________ interactions vary across ecosystems, the patterns of interactions of organisms with their environments are shared

• Competitive

• Predatory

• Mutually beneficial

• Dependent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Ecosystems have multiple ___________________ going on simultaneously

• Competitive

• Reduce

• Relationships

• Mutually beneficial

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2