Competition in An Ecosystem Vocabulary Quiz

Living, or produced by living things

• Environmental Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Genetic Factor

• Biotic Factor

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

The inevitable elimination from a habitat of one or two different species with identical needs for resources.

• Tertiary Consumer

• Organism

• Secondary Consumer

• Competitive Exclusion

More than one individual or population in an ecosystem that relies upon the same limited resource

• Limited Resource

• Competition

• Dependent Interaction

• Organism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Relationships between an organism or population and abiotic factors

• Dependent Interactions

• Competitive Exclusion

• Environmental Interactions

• Limited Resource

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Something that is needed by organisms and is not infinite in its abundance in the environment; if it is exhausted, then the organisms that need it cannot survive

• Resources

• Limited Resources

• Competition

• Population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A self-contained living thing

• Biotic Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Organism

• Secondary Consumer

A group of interacting individuals or the same species located in the same area

• Secondary Consumer

• Biotic Factor

• Primary Consumer

• Population

Not living, or produced by living

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

• Population

• Organism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The largest population an area can support

• Population

• Primary Consumer

• Carrying Capacity

• Secondary Consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• Resources

• Carrying Capacity

• Population

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3