Ecological Relationships and Limiting Factors

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What is the term for a close interaction between two different species?

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Symbiosis

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True or False: Limiting factors can help keep a population from getting too large.

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True

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What is the ecological relationship that is beneficial to both organisms involved?

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Mutualism

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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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If the population of a certain predator increases, what is the likely impact on its prey?

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A decrease in the population of its prey.

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What is the term for a relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed?

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Commensalism

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What do we call the role or function of an organism within its environment?

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Niche

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What is the term for a relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another?

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Parasitism

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What is biodiversity?

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The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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What are limiting factors in an ecosystem?

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Conditions that restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of organisms.