Biotic Factors
Abiotic Factors
Levels of Organization
Vocabulary
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What is a biotic factor?
A living thing in an eccosystem
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What is an abiotic factor?
The nonliving things in an ecosystem.
100
What sentence is used to remember all levels of organization?
Bubbly Baboon Eats Candy, Pizza & Ice cream. (B.B.E.C.P.I)
100

This is the place an organism usually lives.

What is a habitat?

200
What are some examples of biotic factors?
Prairie Dogs, Worms, Fungi, and Bacteria
200
Name all the abiotic factors in the phrase: ''The Santa Runs Wild Out Side."
Temperature, Sunlight, Rainfall, Wind, Oxygen, Soil.
200
What are the six levels of organizations from largest to smallest?
Biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, and individuals.
200

This is a group of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.

What is a population?

300
A fenced field has cattle living on it. As the rancher adds more cows, he notices a few days later that the grass is gone from the field. What factor in the environment is most likely to be responsible?
Biotic, the cattle have eaten the grass.
300
How does abiotic factors affect the organisms in the ecosystem?
They include both the physical and chemical parts of an ecosystem which determines the types of organisms in an ecosystem can support.
300
What is the range of a biosphere?
From the deepest parts of the ocean to the highest point of Earth's atmosphere.
300

This is groups of various species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other. These include biotic factors only!!

What is a community?

400
Which biotic factors would you expect to find in a pond?
Fish, turtle, water plant
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What are some examples of abiotic factors?
Water, oxygen, sunlight, wind, soil, food, temperature, weather, climate.
400
How does climate affect biomes?
It is the weather pattern, and it determines the organisms living there.
400

These are the 5 levels of ecological organization from most specific to least specific.

What are species (organism), population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere?

500
Ten years ago wolves were added to Yellowstone Park. What change occurred in the biotic factors as a result?
Elk populations dropped
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How do abiotic factors interact with biotic factors?
They interact with each other by helping them survive in the ecosystem and helping them completing their life processes.
500
How would removing organisms affect higher levels?
If organisms were removed, there would be no interactions or levels of organization
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The 5 major components of an ecosystem are mineral/nutrients, living organisms, and the remaining three are...

What are energy, water, and oxygen?

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