Abiotic and Biotic
Limiting Factors and Carrying Capacity
Energy flow (food chains and food webs)
Matter cycles
Miscellaneous
100
Sunlight, water, air are examples of this
What are abiotic factors?
100
Anything that limits the number of individuals that can be present in an ecosystem
What is a limiting factor?
100
All energy on earth comes from (with the exception of deep ocean trenches...)
What is the sun?
100
The recycling of nutrients from dead things back into living things
What is decomposition?
100
When a population's food source disappears, its overall size will...
What is decrease
200
plants, animals, and insects are examples of this
What are biotic factors?
200
The number of individuals an ecosystem can hold
What is carrying capacity?
200
Arrows always show the direction of this
What is energy travel?
200
mushrooms, bacteria, worms, and roly-polys are all examples of
What are decomposers?
200
An interaction when both species benefit
What is mutualism?
300
Abiotic factors shown in this ecosystem diagram
What are solar radiation, moisture, habitat, minerals, nutrients?
300
Examples of limiting factors (list at least three)
Answers may vary- example answers: What are food, water, space, predator/prey, disturbances, etc.
300
The number of food webs in this image
What is 6?
300
This is a major building block of life and an element that cycles through ecosystems on time scales of minutes to milleniums
What is carbon?
300
This is the trophic level with the largest population in any ecosystem
What are producers?
400
abiotic factors animals need to live
What are oxygen, water, and habitat?
400
Prey populations increase
400
The base of every food chain and food web
What are producers?
400
carbon cycles between plants and animals by way of...
What is photosynthesis and cellular respiration? (photosynthesis and respiration or "breathing out" are also acceptable answers)
400
This is the trophic level with the smallest population in any ecosystem
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
Abiotic factors plants need to make food
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
500
When a population goes above carrying capacity, it will...
Decrease until it meets carrying capacity
500
Only 10% of energy travels up between ___ ____.
What are trophic levels?
500
Carbon stored in ___ ____ can be stored for millions to billions of years.
What are fossil fuels?
500
If snakes were removed from this ecosystem, what populations would increase?
Mice and rabbits because snakes eat mice and rabbits