Unit 1 Test: Ecosystem Relationships

Nonliving factors that affect the ecosystem; includes light, space, temperature, shelter, water, and soil composition

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

• Rocks

• Biodiversity

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When two or more individuals or populations attempt to obtain a single resource.

• Competitive Interaction

• Biodiversity

• Competition

• Dependent Interaction

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A system comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Environment

• Food Web

An interaction between organisms or species that is helpful to both.

• Mutually Beneficial Interactions

• Food Chain

• Commercialism

• Photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The interaction between two animals in which one animal eats the other.

• Predatory Interaction

• Big Mac

• Food Web

• Species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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The relationship between two organisms in a community.

• symbiosis

• predator / prey

• cooperation

• population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

True or False: The population size of predators are equal to the population size of prey.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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In this food web, which animals are in competition?

• Hawks and coyotes

• Squirrels and hawks

• Antelopes and squirrels

• Hawks and mountain lions

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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An organism that is "hunted" and "eaten" as food is called ______________________.

• Prey

• Predator

• Host

• Parasite

An organism that makes their own food using sunlight.

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Nutrients

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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