Science- populations, communities, and ecosystems

What influences an organisms’ ability to survive and reproduce in its environment?

• Genetic Makeup

• How they were raised

• Their special characteristics

• Their age

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What is the process whereby organisms are better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

• Niche

• Succession

• Biodiversity

• Natural selection

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The organisms that go through the process of natural selection are more likely to__________ and ____________ more

• Reproduce

• Die

• Survive

• Migrate

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How do unhelpful characteristics affect the survival of a species?

• Causes them to migrate

• Causes the species to become extinct

• Causes the species to find a new way of surviving

• Causes other organisms to keep away from them

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What is a niche?

• Any relationship between two species that live closely together and benefits at least one of the species in question

• The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat

• The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat

• The role of an organism and its ecosystem or habitat

A Niche includes….

• How the organism obtains its food, the type of food consumed, and what others that organism

• The ecosystem in which the organism lives, how it interacts with other animals, and other organisms in its ecosystem, and is it prey or predator

• How the organism interacts with other organisms, how the organism obtains its food what ecosystem does this organism live in

• How the organism communicate, how the organism finds food, the ecosystem in which the organism lives

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What determines an organisms energy role?

• Where it lives and it’s prey

• Where it’s food is and it’s predator

• How it gets it food and interacts with others

• what It’s predator and prey

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What are examples of how abiotic factors influence a population?

• Too many resources

• Lack of water

• Lack of space

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What are the types of interactions?

• texting, calling, emailing

• competition, predation, symbiosis

• in-person, remote, over the phone

• succession, conservation, niche

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What is competition?

• The struggle between two organisms for a limited resource

  They need

• The struggle between two people to reach a goal

• Fighting with a sibling over a toy

• Arguing about who has to pay who

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