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In natural selection, individuals whose unique characteristics are well-suited for an environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
When a snake kills a shrew, the shrew is the
If an area has all the wolves that it can support, the wolf population has reached its Choose... biotic potential carrying capacity density .
If animals cannot find enough places to build nests, it is because Choose... space food water is a limiting factor for the population.
If foxes arrive in an area and catch and eat a large number of rabbits, the foxes are causing an increase in the birth rate of the rabbit population.
An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other things it needs to live, grow, and reproduce from its
The nonliving things that interact with an organism are called biotic factors.
Three coyotes per square kilometer is an example of population density.
Oxygen is an abiotic factor in the environment that is important for plants to make their own food.
Sunlight can be a limiting factor for populations of plants.
Which of the following lives in a prairie ecosystem?
The size of a population increases if the number of individuals added to the population is equal to the number of individuals leaving the population.
Which of the following lists the levels of an ecosystem in order from largest to smallest?
What is the difference between sand silt and clay soils?
Immigration means moving out of a population.
Which of the following is a biotic factor?
Plants lose _________ from their leaves through the process of transpiration.
What mineral particles of soil have the greatest influence on soil texture and workability?
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment is called ecology.
All the organisms that live in a particular area and their nonliving surroundings make up an ecosystem.