Biotic Boulevard
These are the living or once-living parts of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
This prefix added to "biotic" means "not" or "without."
What is "A-"?
I am any living thing, such as a plant, animal, or bacteria.
What is an organism?
This is the smallest level of organization
What is an organism?
If a hawk eats a mouse, it is competing for a ________ factor.
What is a biotic factor?
The Greek root "Bio" means this
What is life?
Two specific abiotic factors that plants often compete for to survive.
What are light (sunlight) and water?
I am a group of individuals that share common characteristics and can breed with each other.
What is a species?
This level is a group of the same species in one area
What is a population?
An aquarium containing water, fish, rocks, and plants represents this level of organization.
What is an ecosystem?
This term describes a part of an ecosystem that was once alive, like a fallen log or a dried leaf.
What is a biotic factor?
This abiotic factor refers to the makeup of the ground, which determines what kind of plants can grow there.
What is soil composition?
I am the level of organization that includes a pride of lions and a herd of zebras interacting.
What is a community?
When you combine all the different populations in an area (only the living parts), you have this.
What is a community?
True or False: Populations only include animals, not plants.
What is False?
Organisms often compete for this specific biotic factor to gain energy.
What is food?
True or False: Abiotic factors remain the same across every ecosystem on Earth.
What is False?
I am the factor that includes temperature and altitude.
What is an abiotic factor?
This level is the first to include both biotic AND abiotic factors interacting together.
What is an ecosystem?
This is why two organisms must be the same species to be considered a population.
What is they must be able to breed/reproduce with each other?
Fungi play this role in ecosystems
What is a decomposer?
Give three examples of abiotic factors found in a desert.
What are sand/soil, sunlight, high temperatures, or lack of rain?
I am a population member, but I might have a different eye color or hair color than my neighbor.
What is a variation in genetic makeup?
Put these in order from largest to smallest: Population, Ecosystem, Organism, Community.
What is Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organism?
Name one biotic and one abiotic factor a squirrel might compete for.
What is food (biotic) and water or nesting space/light (abiotic)?