Abiotic and Biotic Abiotic Cycle Populations Food Webs Potpourri

100

What is the decaying matter found in soil?
humus

100

What are two different organisms that do nitrogen fixation?
legumes and bacteria

100

What restricts the number of individuals living in a population?
Limiting Factor

100

What organisms make their own energy?
producers

100

What are large geographic areas that have similar climates and ecosystems?
Biomes

200

What are three abiotic factors
sunlight, temperature, air

200

What is the process where plants change carbon dioxide into oxygen?
photosynthesis

200

What is the relationship where both species benifit from each other?
mutualism

200

What decribes how energy is transferred from one level to another level?
Energy pyramid

200

What is the term used to discribe how an organism survives, how it obtains food and shelter, how it finds a mate and cares for its young, and how it avoids danger.
niche

300

What is soil composed of?
Rocks, organic material, water and air

300

What is found in air and used by plants and animals?
Nitrogen

300

What is the largest number of individuals of one species that an environment can support and maintain?
Carrying capacity

300

What is the term used to describe the feeding relationship of organisms?
Food Web

300

What is the term used to describe where an organism lives?
habitate

400

What are the factors that affect soil?
Climate, types of rock, slope of the land, types of vegatation, time

400

How does a plant let go of water?
Transpiration

400

What are factors that might stop a population's growth?
water, food, shelter, disease, natural disasters

400

What are organisms that can not make their own energy?
Consumers

400

What are worms, fungi, bacteria?
decomposers

500

What are biotic factors?
Is alive or has once been alive such as humus, fungi

500

What element is the necessary ingredient for cellular health and reproduction?
Protein and DNA

500

What is the term used to refer to the relationship of organisms to each other?
symbiosis

500

What is the term used to describe all the populations in an ecosystem?
Community

500

What is the relationship where one organism benifits but the other is harmed?
Parasites

Ecology Final

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