Abiotic/Biotic
What is a biotic factor?
A living part of an ecosystem.
What is the role an organism plays in a community?
Niche
What is the process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas, caused by heat?
Evaporation
What is an organism?
a living thing
What is a resource?
An organism gets food, water, shelter and other things from its environment that it needs for survival.
A non-living part of the ecosystem.
What is a large community of vegetation and wildlife adapted to a specific climate?
What is the cooling of water in the atmosphere changing gas to a liquid?
Condensation
What is a habitat?
The place where an organism lives and that provides the things it needs for survival.
What is a population?
All the members of one species in a particular area.
Tree is considered what?
Biotic
What is the community of organisms that live in a particular area along with the nonliving environment?
Ecosystem
What is water droplets fall from the atmosphere in the form of rain, snow, sleet, hail?
Percipitation
What is a limiting factor?
Food, water, climate, weather, space, shelter
What is a community?
All the different populations that live together in an area.
Dirt is considered?
Abiotic
What is an environmental factor that causes a population to STOP growing or to decrease in size?
Limiting Factor
What is our main energy source?
The sun
What makes their own food?
Producers
What is a food web?
A model of the feeding relationships between many different consumers and producers in an ecosystem
When is something biotic considered abiotic?
When they turn to dust and are fully decomposed.
Seasonal movement of a species into and out of an area?
Migration
What are the 5 major Biomes?
Aquatic, Grassland, Forest, Desert, Tundra
Consumer
What is a food chain?
the feeding relationship between a producer and a single chain of consumers in an ecosystem