Ecological Relationships and Limiting Factors

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What is the term for the organism that is hunted and eaten in a feeding relationship?

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Prey

Front

What type of ecological relationship is represented by plover birds eating parasites from crocodiles?

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Mutualism

Front

What are resources like food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space known as?

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Limiting factors

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Front

What is the general term for the interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association?

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Symbiosis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Front

What happens to the population of prey when the population of a predator increases?

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A decrease in the population of prey.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Front

What is the term for an organism that makes its own food using sunlight?

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Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Front

What is the relationship called when one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed?

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Commensalism

Front

What do we call the role an organism plays in its ecosystem?

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Niche

Front

What is the term for organisms that eat both plants and animals?

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Omnivore

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

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Competition