Interdependence

The Couch’s spadefoot lives in Texas and has the characteristics listed below.

The Couch’s spadefoot is adapted to a certain type of environment. Which of these resources is most likely scarce in this environment?

• Soil

• Sunlight

• Water

• Oxygen

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This image is an example of a ____.

• food web

• food chain

• safari

• ecosystem

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The study of the relationships between the living and non-living things in an environment.

• community

• food chain

• competition

• ecology

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A group of different species that live in the same area.

• community

• population

• species

• biome

Includes the organisms as well as all the non-living things living in an area.

• biome

• ecosystem

• population

• biotic

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An example of this type of factor within an ecosystem is sunlight.

• biotic

• abiotic

• species

• producer

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An example of this type of factor within an ecosystem is grass.

• biotic

• abiotic

• community

• comsumer

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Living things that can make their own food by using energy from sunlight.

• autotrophs

• heterotrophs

• herbivores

• omnivores

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Living things that obtain their energy by eating other living things.

• producers

• consumers

• herbivores

• food web

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This organism is typically the second species within a food chain, so they are herbivores and eat autotrophs.

• primary consumer

• producer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

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