When an organism gathers information to begin a feedback loop.
What is input?
The farm ecosystem can only support 50 cows. This is an example of.
What is carrying capacity?
Ecosystems include these two categories of factors
What are biotic and abiotic?
Areas that have similar biotic and abiotic factors, even at different places around the world
What is a biome?
Maintaining a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis.
The process that Apple Inc follows to release the new iPhone that is slightly better than the last year's phone.
What is engineering design process
This term describes all the organisms of the same species living in the same area
What is population
What is abiotic
Humans getting matter and energy from the food that they eat is an example of this type of system.
What is open system
This term is a measure of how many different species of organisms there are in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity
All the different species that interact with each other in an ecosystem are called this.
What is a community
What are man-made objects like roads and buildings are part of this -sphere
What is the anthrosphere?
Systems are defined a a group of parts that do this
What is work together to get a job done?
This term describes a coral reef that can stay healthy and alive as the ocean temperature gets warmer; until the ocean temperature reaches a certain level, then everything dies.
What is resistance
When an ecosystem has high biodiversity, it also has this, which measures the number of species in an area
What is high species richness
How would you describe the biodiversity in this classroom right now.
What is low biodiversity
This includes all the organisms and all the abiotic factors in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
This term describes a forest where a couple of trees get sick and die, but new trees grow back quickly
What is resillience
Food sources, abiotic factors, and behaviors combine to describe this.
What is a niche?
True or False: Biotic and abiotic factors in the environment are always interacting with each other.
True