science

Question 1

The study of organisms and their environments

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Ecology

Question 2

A limited area in which living and nonliving things interact

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Ecosystems

Question 3

The environment with the nonliving factors in an ecosystems.

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The abiotic community

Question 4

The environment with the living factors in an ecossystems

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biotic community

Question 5

The area where an organism lives is often only a part of an ecosystem.

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Habitat

Question 6

A____includes all the factors in an organism’s environment.

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Niche

Question 7

The amount of _______ an area receives affects what kinds of plants will live in the ecosystem.

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Light

Question 8

The primary difference among many of the world’s ecosystems is the amount of_______they contain.

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Water

Question 9

The movement of water from the earth to the atmosphere.

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Evaporation

Question 10

Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all forms of______________

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Precipitation

Question 11

The water that moves along the surface is called_______

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Runoff

Question 12

precipitation that enters the soil is called________

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Ground water

Question 13

All the individuals from the same species in an ecosystem make up the

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Population

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___________Organisms manufacture their own food

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Producer

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__________organisms that cannot manufacture food

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Consumer

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The oxygen cycle and the carbon cycle use two major biological processes called

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Photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

Question 17

The two most common producers

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Plants and algae

Question 18

A______rhythm, or daily, rhythm is a change that takes place during one 24-hour period.

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Circadian

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Species were entering a period of activity.

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Diurnal

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_____Animals that sleep during the day and are awake at night

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Nocturnal

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_______ ________ is a change in the ecosystem that occurs with the change of season(usually once per year).

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Seasonal rhythm

Question 22

_______ factor: a factor in a habitat that limits the growth or existence

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Limiting factor

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a change that occurs regularly in an ecosystem

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rhythm

Question 24

Mutations are______not beneficial

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harmful

Question 25

a period of slowed life processes that permits certain animals to survive winter conditions

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Hibernation

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______ plants come back every year

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Perennial

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________ ________ internal mechanism that appears to control organisms’ daily rhythms

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biological clock

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For _________ the seeds are dormant during the winter and sprout in the spring.

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Annuals

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_______ _________ the continuous movement of water from the atmosphere to the earth and back to the atmosphere

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water cycle

Question 30

Inactive growth metabolism slows down

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dormant

Question 31

_____________ is a predictable series of changes that occur in biotic communities as they progress toward climax communities.

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Succession

Question 32

_______________ is an ecosystem that has a large amount of water.

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Aquatic

Question 33

Levels of organization in an aquarium

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individual, population, community and ecosystem