Competition in Ecosystems

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What must some organisms in a population do for the population to continue to survive?

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Reproduce

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What are the living things in an ecosystem called?

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Organisms

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What type of factors include characteristics such as height, hair color, and eye color?

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Genetic factors

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What two types of things do environments include?

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Living and nonliving things

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What do plants compete for within ecosystems?

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Air, water, space, and sunlight

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What is the term for the role an organism plays in its environment?

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Niche

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What is the relationship called when two species compete for the same resources?

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Interspecific competition

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What is the term for the maximum population size that an environment can sustain?

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Carrying capacity

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What is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring?

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Natural selection

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What is the term for the variety of life in an ecosystem?

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Biodiversity

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