Food Web Vocabulary

A food web is

• A network of food chains that have some links in common

• a species that takes hold outside its native range

• to make less

• All of the living and nonliving things in an area

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a group of organisms that are similar to one another and can combine to produce offspring

• competition

• food web

• species

• population

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all of the living and nonliving things and all of their interactions in an area

• ecosystem

• species

• population

• decrease

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to bring into a group; to meet

• resource

• ecosystem

• introduce

• species

is the struggle between organisms for the same resource (water, sunlight, space)

• competition

• food web

• increase

• invasive species

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to make greater

• decrease

• resource

• population

• increase

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A species, often introduced by humans, that takes hold outside its native range.

• competition

• species

• invasive species

• decrease

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a supply of something that can be used when it is needed (water, food, shelter, sun...)

• food web

• competition

• population

• resource

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to make less

• increase

• decrease

• introduce

• ecosystem

all the individuals of one species in a given area (Ex. all bears)

• species

• competition

• population

• resource

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