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10. All of the environmental features in an area where an organism lives

11. What is a habitat?

12. Position in a food web and behavior is part of this

13. What is a niche?

14. Increases in competition for food, shelter, and mates cause a population to reach this

15. What is carrying capacity?

16. Ex: Two robins eating worms on the same lawn

17. What is competition?

18. One organism capturing and eating another

19. What is predation?

20. Ex: Aphids excrete a waste that ants eat, while ants protect the aphids from predators

21. What is mutualism?

22. Ex: oak tree provides a place for a bird to build a nest

23. What is commensalism ?

24. Difference between parasites and predators

25. What is parasites keep their hosts alive for a while?

26. Movement of a single caribou into a herd

27. What is immigration?

28. Pattern of growth limited resources will show

29. What is logistic?

30. T/F Carrying capacity changes after a fire or flood

31. What is true?

32. Ex: Diseases spread more rapidly when an area is crowded

33. What is a density- dependent limiting factor?

34. Ex: Natural disaster

35. What is a density- independent limiting factor?

36. Sequence of biotic changes that regenerate or create an ecological community

37. What is succession?

38. Development of an ecosystem in an area that has been covered by lava begins by

39. What is breakdown of rock by pioneer species?

40. Ex: lichens and mosses that first live in uninhabited areas

41. What are pioneer species?

42. Ex: After a forest fire

43. What is secondary succession ?

44. Begins with bare rock

45. What is primary succession?

46. Earth’s human population

47. What is about 6 billion?

48. Reason Earth’s carrying capacity has increased

49. What is technology?

50. Ex: coal

51. What is a nonrenewable resource?

52. Ex: Trees on Easter Island were cut faster than they could grow

53. What is nonrenewable resource?

54. Amount of land needed to support a person

55. What is an ecological footprint?

56. Ex: A vine coiling around an object

57. What thigmotropism?

59. Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect

60. What are carbon dioxide and methane?

61. Pollutants in the water cycle cause rain to become ______

62. What is more acidic than normal?

63. How greenhouse gases affect Earth’s atmosphere

64. What is they slow the loss of heat?

65. Increase in global temperatures

66. What is global warming?

67. One organism benefits while one is neither benefited or harmed

68. What is commensalism ?

69. Ex: A leech feeds on a host’s blood

70. What is parasitism?

71. Final Jeopardy: What 2 factors cause smog?

72. Sunlight and pollutants from fossil fuels