Ecosystem Vocabulary

_______ is the study of interactions between living things and their environment.

• organism

• population

• ecology

• biology

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_______ is the study of life.

• biosphere

• organism

• biology

• ecology

The _________ will include the part of Earth that supports life, the crust, including the top portion of the atmosphere and all of the Earth’s waters.

• biosphere

• biome

• community

• ecosystem

An _________ will include the living and non living parts of an area.

• organism

• ecosystem

• ecology

• biosphere

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All ecosystems have a ________ ________, the number of organisms the ecosystem can support before it begins to suffer.

• math problem

• carrying capacity

• awesome organism

• community representative

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A __________ consists of all the individual species in a given area.

• organism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

Many populations make up a _________.

• biosphere

• ecosystem

• biome

• community

The overuse of resources can lead to a decrease in __________ _________, the variation of life in an ecosystem. (there are 2 answers.)

• symbiotic differences

• biological diversity

• biodiversity

• organisms health

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Also, within ecosystems there are many _________ relationships.

• symbiotic

• biome

• stimulus

• response

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For example, a tick taking blood from a deer is __________.

• predation

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

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