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Question 1

Biotic

Answer 1

All living organisms that inhabit and environment.

Question 2

Carrying Capacity

Answer 2

Number of organisms of one species that an environment can support indefinitely; population carrying capacity tend to increase; those above tent to decrease.

Question 3

Competition

Answer 3

A symbolic relationship between or among living things for resources such as food, space, shelter, mate, ecological status, etc.

Question 4

Exponential Growth

Answer 4

Growth pattern where a population grows faster as it increases in size; graph of an exponentially growing population resembles a “j” shape curve.

Question 5

Limiting Factor

Answer 5

Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms .

Question 6

Logistic Growth

Answer 6

A model that increase quickly at first then slowly as the quantity comes to a/the limit.

Question 7

Overpopulation

Answer 7

A situation in which too many people or animals live in a central area.

Question 8

Population

Answer 8

Group of organisms all of the same species, which interbreed and live in the same place at the same time.

Question 9

Scale

Answer 9

Either a pan or a tray of a balance.

Question 10

Abiotic

Answer 10

Non-living parts of an organisms environment; air currents, temperature, moisture lights, soil are examples.