Populations and Resources Amplify Vocabulary

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What is energy?

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Energy is the ability to make things move or change.

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What is a resource population?

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A population that is eaten by organisms from another population.

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Which type of scientist is most likely to work with an ecologist?

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A biologist.

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What is a consumer population?

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A population that eats organisms from another population.

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What is an ecosystem?

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An ecosystem is a community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system.

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What is a producer in an ecosystem?

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A producer is an organism that can make its own food, typically through photosynthesis.

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What is a food chain?

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A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is biodiversity?

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Biodiversity refers to the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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What is a habitat?

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A habitat is the natural environment in which an organism lives.