Ecosystems Interrelationships

Humans have an effect on ecosystems when they use native grasslands or forested areas for farming or urban use. One negative effect of these changes on the ecosystem is that there will be

• Less biodiversity

• Successful economic growth

• More homes

• Increased food production

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Which list includes only abiotic factors?

• soil, water, air, and sunlight

• humidity, temperature, rodents, and grasses

• ducks, fish, soil, and water

• trees, flowering plants, mosses, and ferns

Scientific study of all the interrelationships between organisms and their environment

• Organic Chemistry

• Biology

• Ecology

• Physics

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Biological community and all the nonliving factors that affect it

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Niche

• Biosphere

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Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

• Competition

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

Heterotroph that decomposes organic material and returns the nutrients to soil, air, and water, making the nutrients available to other organisms

• Detrivore

• Omnivore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

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Symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasistism

Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

Act of one organism feeding on another organism

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

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Organism that captures energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce its own food; provides the foundation of the food supply for other organisms; also called a producer

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

• Carnivore

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