Dynamic Nature of Ecosystems Vocabulary

Population

• The ability of an organism, population, community, or ecosystem to persist in the face of stressful or changing conditions

• A group of organisms that are similar to one another and can mate to produce offspring

• Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress

• A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area

The ability of an organism, population, community, or ecosystem to persist in the face of stressful or changing conditions

• Resilience

• Ecosystem

• Dynamic

• Population

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Species

• A system comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them

• A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area

• A group of organisms that are similar to one another and can mate to produce offspring

• Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress

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Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress

• Ecosystem

• Dynamic

• Species

• Resilience

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Which is NOT an example of a human-caused event that can disturb the delicate balance of an ecosystem?

• Deforestation

• Introduction of a non-native species into an ecosystem

• Forest fire started by a careless camper

• Volcanic eruption

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A species that enters an area from somewhere

else and disrupts the native ecosystem

• Deforestation

• Succession (Ecological

  Succession)

• Ecosystem

• Invasive Species

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Interrelated changes among the biotic and abiotic

factors in an ecosystem over time

• Ecosystem Dynamics

• Succession

• Deforestation

• Commensalism

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When more than one individual or population in

an ecosystem relies on the same limited

resources Is Competition

• True

• False

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Mutualism Is The ability of an organism, population,

community, or ecosystem to persist in the face of

stressful or changing conditions

• True

• False

Resilience is The ability of an organism, population,

community, or ecosystem to persist in the face of

stressful or changing conditions

• True

• False

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