Ecology Review

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What is a population?

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a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

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Which is an example of an ecosystem?

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An area of cold climate and communities of different species

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BIOTIC

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Factors in the environment that are considered living or the remains of living things

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One species benefits, the other is unaffected

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commensalism

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What type of relationship is described: Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Then, the honey guide birds eat as well?

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mutualism

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Tapeworms reside in human intestine and take nutrients from the human.

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parasitism

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Vines grow on a tree. The vines get light but the tree is not affected. What kind of relationship is this? Options: Competition, Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism

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Commensalism

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An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:

Predator

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Autotroph

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Producer

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Decomposer

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Decomposer

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The ecological role an organism performs in their specific environment is considered the organism's...

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Niche

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

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They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms.