The maximum number of population an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
Factors that cause population growth to decrease
What are Limiting factors?
Land biomes that are classified by climate and dominant plant and animal species.
What are terrestrial biomes?
Interlocking food chains within a community
What is a food web?
An individual
Growth of population that levels off at carrying capacity.
What is logarithmic growth?
Affect a population when it reaches a certain size
What is a density dependent limiting factor?
Biomes that are classified by salt content and their location
*hint h20*
What are Aquatic Biomes?
Each step in a food chain or web
What is a trophic level?
Nonliving influences on a population/ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
Growth of population under ideal conditions, number will increase continually
What is exponential growth?
Factors that affect a population regardless of itś size.
What are density independent limiting factors?
An area that gets little to no rainfall and is warm or hot most of the year
What is a desert?
Organism that eats other things
What is a heterotroph/consumer?
A group of individuals that live in the same area
What is a population?
Regrowth of a region that occurs when soil is removed
What is primary succession?
3 factors that affect population when they grow too large.
What are competition, disease and predation?
An area that gets a lot of rain (100 inch min)
What is a rainforest?
Organisms that produce their own food
What is an autotroph?
Assemblages of different populations that live together in an area
What is a community?
A species that did not originate in a specific area
What are non native species?
What are hurricanes, wildfires, and dams?
Biome that experiences a hot and rainy season as well as cold and dry seasons.
What is the grasslands?
The three types of symbiotic relationships in this order
1. one organism benefits other is unharmed
2. both organisms benefit
3. one organism benefits and on is harmed
What are (1) commensalism, (2) mutualism, (3) parasitism?
Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominate communities
What is a biome?