Principles of Ecology

nonliving part of an organism’s environment, such as soil, wind, moisture, light, temperature, and available nutrients

• limiting factor

• abiotic factor

• predation

• biotic factor

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one species benefits and the other species is neither harmed nor does it benefit

• niche 

• parasitism

• predation

• commensalism

permanent, close association between two or more organisms of different species

• habitat 

• biotic factor

• symbiosis

• ecosystem

the act of one organism consuming another for food

• predation

• ecology

• parasitism

• limiting factor

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living organisms that inhabit an environment

• abiotic factor

• mutualism

• biotic factor

• population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A model that shows all the possible feeding relationships at each trophic level

• food web

• biomass

• trophic level

• autotrophs

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the total weight of living matter at a certain trophic level

• herbivore

• food web

• omnivore

• biomass

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

is an organism that captures energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food

• Omnivores

• autotroph

• herbivore

• heterotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A heterotroph that consumes only plants

• autotroph

• Omnivores

• herbivore

• carnivores

an organism that obtains energy by consuming other organisms

• heterotroph

• carnivores

• Omnivores

• autotroph

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