species niche predator carrying capacity population community prey competition habitat symbiosis limiting factor cooperation Key Concepts - You should be able to: 1. Describe five different levels in the environment; order these terms from the simplest to the most complex. 2. How do the terms and relate to each other? habitat niche 3. How is a school community similar to a community of living organisms? 4. Name three symbiotic relationships. Use pictures to illustrate each relationship. (Hint: think emojis ) 5. What sorts of resources do plants and animals compete for in an ecosystem? 6. Explain cooperation. List ways in which members of the same species can cooperate with each other. 7. Explain the term What does a limiting factor do? carrying capacity. 8. Describe three factors that could limit the size of a population in a habitat. 9. What is a model? 10. Describe how this Abert squirrel interacts within its ecosystem. (Think: habitat, niche, food chain, food web, etc.). Ch.3: Human Impact on Ecosystems Vocabulary: Natural resources Population density Pollution
species population habitat niche community symbiosis predator prey limiting factor carrying capacity competition cooperation Key Concepts - You should be able to: 1. Describe five different levels in the environment; order these terms from the simplest to the most complex. 2. How do the terms habitat and niche relate to each other? 3. How is a school community similar to a community of living organisms? 4. Name three symbiotic relationships. Use pictures to illustrate each relationship. (Hint: think emojis ) 5. What sorts of resources do plants and animals compete for in an ecosystem? 6. Explain cooperation. List ways in which members of the same species can cooperate with each other. 7. Explain the term carrying capacity. What does a limiting factor do? 8. Describe three factors that could limit the size of a population in a habitat. 9. What is a model? 10. Describe how this Abert squirrel interacts within its ecosystem. (Think: habitat, niche, food chain, food web, etc.). Ch.3: Human Impact on Ecosystems Vocabulary: Natural resources Population density Pollution
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