Balance in Ecosystems

The fight for limited resources

• competition

• symbiosis

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

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Any resource that restricts the growth of populations

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• competition

• symbiosis

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A relationship between two or more kinds of organisms that lasts over time

• symbiosis

• competition

• populations

• limiting factors

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Organism that benefits in parasitism

• parasite

• host

• omnivore

• producer

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Organism that is harmed in parasitism

• host

• parasite

• omnivore

• producer

The greatest number of individuals within a population that an ecosystem can support

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• competition

• parasitism

An organism that is introduced into a new ecosystem either accidentally or on purpose by humans

• invasive species

• predator

• producer

• host

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An ecosystem has a/(an) ____ supply of resources.

• limited

• unlimited

• large

• unending

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Because resources are limited, organisms must ____.

• compete

• consume

• migrate

• hibernate

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Ecosystems have ______ resources.

• biotic

• abiotic

• biotic and abiotic

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