5.1 Interactions Vocabulary Review

What is the maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can support sustainably over time called?

• Community

• Carrying Capacity

• Population

• Limiting Factors

What term describes a group of different species living together in the same area and interacting with each other?

• Organisms

• Community

• Population

• Symbiosis

What is the struggle between organisms for limited resources such as food, water, or space called?

• Competition

• Predation

• Symbiosis

• Succession

What are environmental factors that restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or population?

• Stability

• Limiting Factors

• Exponential Growth

• Symbiosis

What term describes individual living things such as animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms?

• Organisms

• Community

• Population

• Prey

What is a group of individuals of the same species living in the same area at the same time called?

• Community

• Population

• Organisms

• Symbiosis

What do you call an organism that hunts and kills other organisms for food?

• Prey

• Predator

• Symbiosis

• Competition

What is an organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator called?

• Predator

• Prey

• Organism

• Community

What term describes a state where an ecosystem or population remains relatively unchanged over time?

• Succession

• Stability

• Exponential Growth

• Symbiosis

What is the gradual process by which ecosystems change and develop over time called?

• Stability

• Succession

• Competition

• Symbiosis