chapter 4 vocab (population / ecosystems)

includes all of the living things and their physical environments within a particular area

• population

• community

• ecosystem

• habitat

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group of individuals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring

• ecology

• species

• community

• population

is or was alive

• abiotic

• biotic

• habitat

• biosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment

• ecology

• biology

• environmental science

• ecosystem

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all of the different populations in a particular area

• ecology

• species

• population

• community

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the same species, at the same place, during the same time

• ecosystem

• community

• population

• species

the specific environment in which an organism lives

• ecosystem

• habitat

• biotic

• biosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

non-living (never was alive)

• abiotic

• biotic

• habitat

• ecosystem

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part of Earth that supports life

• habitat

• ecology

• biosphere

• ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

describes how a population's initial exponential increase is slowed and finally stopped by growth

• logistic growth

• exponential growth

• carrying capacity

• density-dependent

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