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Biology - Ecology

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What term describes all the organisms in a given area as well as the abiotic factors with which they interact?

What is a consumer that derives its energy and nutrients from nonliving organic material such as corpses and fallen plant material?

What term refers to the sum of a species' use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment?

What is the ecological interaction in which one organism benefits by feeding upon another organism, which is harmed?

What is the interaction between species in which one species, the predator, eats the other, the prey?

What is the ecological interaction that benefits each of the interacting species?

What is the ecological interaction in which one organism benefits but the other is neither helped nor harmed?

What term describes an ecological relationship between organisms of two different species that live together in direct and intimate contact?

What is the joint evolution of two interacting species, each in response to selection imposed by the other?

What term describes a species that is not necessarily abundant in a community yet exerts strong control on community structure?

What is a species, often introduced by humans, that takes hold outside its native range?

What term describes a regular, long-distance change in location?

In animal behavior, what is the formation at a specific stage in life of a long-lasting behavioral response to a specific individual or object?

What term describes an action carried out by muscles or glands under control of the nervous system in response to a stimulus?

What is a small molecule released into the environment that functions in communication between members of the same species?

What term describes a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area and interbreed, producing fertile offspring?

What is the influx of new individuals into a population from other areas?

What term describes the movement of individuals out of a population?

What is the number of deaths in a population during a given time or place?

What is a simple type of learning that involves a loss of responsiveness to stimuli that convey little or no new information?

What term describes the total mass of organic matter comprising a group of organisms in a particular habitat?

What is the number and relative abundance of species in a biological community?

What term describes the number of species in a biological community?

What is an autotroph, usually a photosynthetic organism, that makes up the trophic level of an ecosystem that ultimately supports all other levels?

What is an herbivore; an organism that eats plants or other autotrophs?

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