U1S1 Carrying Capacity (Updated)

Not living, or produced by nonliving things

• Abiotic
• Abiotic
• Biotic
• Parasitism
• Competition

Answer explanation

a = not; bio = life

A process by which the heritable characteristics of a population change such that the organisms in the population become better able to survive and reproduce in their environment

• Adaptation
• Community (Communities)
• Boundary
• Competition
• Keystone Species

Living, or produced by living things

• Biotic
• Adaptation
• Carrying Capacity
• Commensalism
• Commensalism

Answer explanation

bio = life

A dividing line

• Boundary
• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Limiting Factor
• Parasitism

The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can support

• Carrying Capacity
• Parasitism
• Community (Communities)
• Keystone Species
• Community (Communities)

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is neither harmed nor helped

• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Competition
• Mutualism
• Predation

All of the interacting populations in an area

• Community (Communities)
• Boundary
• Keystone Species
• Boundary
• Carrying Capacity

A condition that occurs when two or more organisms compete for the same resources within an ecological community

• Competition
• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Parasitism
• Predation

A species that, if removed from an ecosystem, would cause a major change in that ecosystem

• Keystone Species
• Competition
• Mutualism
• Mutualism
• Boundary

A biotic or abiotic environmental factor that restricts the growth of a population

• Limiting Factor
• Predation
• Parasitism
• Adaptation
• Limiting Factor

Answer explanation

A population that has limited acess to food will not be able to grow