Honors Biology Final Exam Review
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autotroph - Answer️️ -organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals
and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds; also called a producer
biosphere - Answer️️ -part of Earth in which life exists including land, wat...
heterotroph - Answer✔️✔️-organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also
called a consumer
population - Answer✔️✔️-group of individuals of the same species that live in the same
area
producer - Answer✔️✔️-organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and
use it to produce food from inorganic compounds; also called an autotroph
species - Answer✔️✔️-group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile
offspring
trophic level - Answer✔️✔️-step in a food chain or food web
abiotic factors - Answer✔️✔️-physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem
biotic factors - Answer✔️✔️-biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem
commensalisms - Answer✔️✔️-symbiotic relationship in which one member of the
association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
mutalism - Answer✔️✔️-symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the
relationship
niche - Answer✔️✔️-full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism
lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions
predation - Answer✔️✔️-interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on
another organism
parasitism - Answer✔️✔️-symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives in or on
another organism (the host) and consequently harms it
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