The organization of ecosystems
What is an area where living and nonliving things interact?
Makes its own food.
What is a producer?
Found in every living organism.
What is carbon?
Two or more organisms in an ecosystem try to get the same resource.
What is competition?
Example of biotic factor.
Water, Large Rock, Rotting Log, Temperature.
What is a rotting log?
Cannot make their own food.
What are consumers?
The process in which bacteria break down dead organisms.
What is decomposition?
Helpful interaction among organisms living in a limited area.
What is cooperation.
Example of an abiotic factor.
Rocks, trees, animals.
What are rocks?
Eats the remains of dead plants or animals.
What are decomposers?
Cycle in which carbon moves through the air, ground, plants and animals.
What is the carbon cylce?
Organisms live in the same habitat but rely on different resources.
What is coexistence?
The simplest level of organization in the living world.
What are organisms?
Any feeding level in an ecosystem.
What is a trophic level?
Process by which nitrogen from the atmosphere is converted into forms that are usefull to a variety of organisms.
What is nitrogen fixation?
Relationship in which one animal hunts, kills, and eats another.
What is predation?
North Carolina's main terrestrial ecosystem.
What are forests?
A network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Process in which nitrogen is taken from nitrates and other compounds in the soil and released as nitrogen gas.
What is denitrification.
An ecosystem has too many predetors or too many prey.
What is an unbalanced predetor-prey relationship?