Topic 6 Ecology 6:1 Vocab Quiz

an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food

• Population

• Predator

• Prey

• Host

the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• Population

• Predators

• Competition

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

the living factors in the environment

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

the nonliving factors in an organism's environment

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Population

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the largest population of any single species that an area can support

• Habitat

• Population

• Limiting Factors

• Carrying Capacity

an animal that is hunted and killed by another animal for food

• Population

• Predator

• Prey

• Host

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Match the definition to the correct term

• Environment

• all of Earth's ecosystems, collectively; the biologically inhabited portions of Earth, including all of the water, land, and air in which organisms survive

• Biosphere

• all the living and nonliving things that interact in a specific area; a subdivision of the environment

• Ecosystem

• every living and nonliving thing that surrounds an

   organism

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• Limiting factors

• the specific place where an organism usually lives

• Habitat

• any factor in the environment that limits the size of a  population

• Population

•  all the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area