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Different feeding levels in an ecosystem; such as producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, decomposer

• carnivore

• secondary consumer

• trophic level

• autotroph

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An environmental resource that prevents a population from increasing

• autotrophs

• limiting factor

• environment

• pollinator

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An organism that eats other organisms; also known as a heterotroph

• consumer

• producer

• autotroph

• herbivore

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Part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere

• biosphere

• autotroph

• ecology

• biology

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

• biosphere

• energy pyramid

• food chain

• food web

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Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support

• biome

• ecology

• carrying capacity

• trophic level

Occurs when there are more members of a population than the ecosystem can support.

• scarcity

• overpopulation

• trophic level

• biome

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Ecological relationship in which two organisms attempt to obtain the same resource

• competition

• habitat

• symbiotic

• ecosystem

A group of one species living in a certain habitat.

• population

• biosphere

• carnivore

• autotroph

The study of the relationship between plants, animals, and their environment.

• chemistry

• physics

• Ecology

• Biology

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