Biotic or Abiotic
A Rock?
Abiotic
A singular living thing.
An Organism / Individual
The flea population increases when the population of cats in a home rises.
Dependent (Parasitism)
An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
A Habitat
What are the basic building blocks of all living things?
Cells
A Blade of Grass?
Biotic
All the different populations that live together in an area.
Community
Independent (Temperature / Unusual Weather)
The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
Population Density
Fungi like mushrooms and lichen are important..
Decomposers
Bacteria?
Biotic
The community of organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment.
Ecosystem
Dependent (Competition)
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size, such as a fatal disease infecting organisms.
Limiting Factor
What obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?
Consumers
Water?
Abiotic
All the members of one species living in a particular area.
Population
Some of the marshland along alligator alley has been paved over for a new pickleball court, causing multiple populations of species in the area to decrease in numbers.
Independent (Human Activity / Deforestation)
The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism.
Biotic Factors
What is a straight series of connections among organisms that feed on each other?
A Food Chain
LeBron James?
What is the correct order of the levels of organization?
Organism (Individual), Population, Community, Ecosystem
Hurricane Helene climbed up Florida and through the Appalachian Mountains, causing mass destruction that included flooding, mudslides, and power outages that ranged from South Florida up to parts of Ohio.
Independent (Natural Disaster)
Things from an organism's environment that it needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
Resources
What is a primary consumer?
A consumer that eats plants or algae (herbivore).