Category 1 Biology Vocab

The accelerating growth that produces a J-shaped curve

when the population is graphed over time

• Limiting Factor

• Exponential Growth

• Carrying Capacity

• Food Chain

Organisms that can make their own food from basic

nutrients and sunlight

• Heterotroph

• Population

• Autotroph

• Biotic

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The diversity of living things

• Abiotic

• Food Web

• Population

• Biodiversity

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A way of showing a step-by-step sequence of who eats who

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Population

• Limiting Factor

The size of a population that can be supported

indefinitely by the resources of a given ecosystem

• Limiting Factor

• Carrying Capacity

• Population

• Sustainability

Organisms which eat/feed off others

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Food chains which interlock with each other to form a

feeding relationship

• Population

• Food Web

• Biodiversity

• Population

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All the interacting parts of a biological community and its

environment

• Sustainability

• Population

• Ecosystems

• Food Webs

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A factor that limits the growth, distribution, or amount

of population in an ecosystem

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

• Population

• Biodiversity

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The physical conditions of the atmosphere at a specific

time and place

• Weather

• Climate

• Ecosystems

• Food Web

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