Intro to Ecology

An individual belonging to a specific species

• Biotic
• Community
• Organism
• Reptile

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Mother Earth
• Flowers

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The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean
• Lava Flow
• Birds
• Abiotic

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The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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Organisms that look similar and can produce fertile offspring

• Species
• Fish
• Community
• Trees

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Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

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All energy transformations in an ecosystem begin with

• a scavenger
• the sun
• a decomposer
• a herbivore

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a deer population has significantly increased, the best hypothesis is 

• the deer's main predator has been eliminated
• competition increased
• decreased water levels of local ponds
• organisms that rely on similar food sources migrated to the area

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A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another is termed..

• energy pyramid
• adaptation
• autotroph
• food web

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