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Honors Biology Final Exam Review
Study Guide
autotroph - Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or
atmosphere
community - Answer✔️✔️-assemblage of different populations that live together in a
defined area
consumer - Answer✔️✔️-organism that relies on other organisms for its energy and food
supply; also called a heterotroph
ecology - Answer✔️✔️-scientific study of interactions among organisms and between
organisms and their environment
ecosystem - Answer✔️✔️-collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place,
together with their nonliving environment
food chain - Answer✔️✔️-series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer
energy by eating and being eaten
food web - Answer✔️✔️-network of complex interactions formed by the feeding
relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem
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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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2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
©SOPHIABENNETT 9/11/24 2024/2025
, ©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 9:45 AM
Honors Biology Final Exam Review
Study Guide
autotroph - Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or
atmosphere
community - Answer✔️✔️-assemblage of different populations that live together in a
defined area
consumer - Answer✔️✔️-organism that relies on other organisms for its energy and food
supply; also called a heterotroph
ecology - Answer✔️✔️-scientific study of interactions among organisms and between
organisms and their environment
ecosystem - Answer✔️✔️-collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place,
together with their nonliving environment
food chain - Answer✔️✔️-series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer
energy by eating and being eaten
food web - Answer✔️✔️-network of complex interactions formed by the feeding
relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem
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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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