Levels of Organization
What is the smallest level of organization in an ecosystem?
What is an individual?
What are factors like food, water, and space that limit population growth?
What are limiting factors?
What type of relationship benefits both species?
What is mutualism?
What is the process of ecosystem change over time?
What is ecological succession?
What are events like fires and floods called?
What are natural disruptions?
What do you call a group of the same species living in one area?
What is a population?
What is the maximum population an environment can support?
What is carrying capacity?
What relationship involves one organism benefiting and the other being harmed?
What is parasitism?
What type of succession begins with no soil?
What is primary succession?
What human activity removes trees and habitats?
What is deforestation?
What level includes all different species living together?
What is a community?
What term describes the highest possible population growth under ideal conditions?
What is biotic potential?
What is it called when one benefits and the other is unaffected?
What is commensalism?
What type of succession occurs where soil already exists?
What is secondary succession?
What is nutrient pollution in water that causes algal blooms?
What is eutrophication?
What includes both living and nonliving things in an area?
What is an ecosystem?
What happens when a population exceeds carrying capacity?
What is overpopulation?
What interaction involves organisms competing for the same resources?
What is competition?
What are the first organisms to grow in primary succession?
What are pioneer species?
What type of species disrupt ecosystems by competing with native species?
What are nonnative (invasive) species?
What is the largest level that includes all life on Earth?
What is the biosphere?
What is it called when a species completely disappears?
What is extinction?
What relationship helps control population size by hunting?
What is predator-prey?
What is the final stable stage of succession called?
What is a climax community?
What is the overall effect of human activity on ecosystems?
What is reduced biodiversity and ecosystem instability?