Ecology: Organisms and Resources

A living thing

• habitat

• population

• organism

• resource

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Food, water, shelter, etc. needed by an organism to live, grow, and reproduce

• community

• resources

• abiotic factor

• space

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The environment that provides resources for an organism

• population

• shelter

• habitat

• limiting factor

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What causes a population to decrease?

• immigration

• limiting factor

• organism

• density

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Which of the following is a biotic factor?

• sunlight

• water

• temperature

• a fallen log

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What do multiple populations make?

• ecosystem

• habitat

• community

• density

What does immigration do to a population?

• Shrinks it

• Adds to it

• Removes food

• Nothing

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How do you calculate population density?

Deer are being born faster than they die. What's happening?

• Population is shrinking

• Immigration

• Population is growing

• Emigration

One type of fish dies when a pond gets hot. Why?

• No space

• Less oxygen

• More food

• Too many fish

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