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In a forest, lynx prey on rodents and birds in the summer. But because of rising temperatures, the birds in the forest have migrated to a cooler place. What effect will this migration have on the population of the rodents?

Because there are fewer birds, the lynx will prey on rodents, leading to a

in their population. This scenario depicts competition.

For the first blank it would be a decline in the  lynx's population, because when there is a rise in a population it means there are going to be more of that species, stagnancy is when there is a stagnant smelling pond, bad smelling. for the second blank direct competition for the survival/food, because thats an animals nature, to survive at all costs, while Intraspecific means produced/producing, occurring, or existing within a species or between individuals of a single species of animal, while Apparent means clearly visable/obvious.

1. the energy lost to disorder metabolism     -entropy

2. related to or possessing motion potential     -kinetic

3. all of the chemical reactions in an organism required for maintenance of the processes of life entropy     -metabolism

4. possible; ability to go into action or perform work kinetic     -potential

5. the study of energy and its transformations thermodynamics     -thermodynamics