Ecosystem Basics
These are living parts of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors
All the members of a species living in one area
What is a population
A relationship where both organisms benefit
What are producers?
The gas plants take in from the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
These are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors
A factor that limits the size of a population
What is commensalism?
Organisms that eat producers
What are primary consumer?
The gas humans breathe in to survive
All living and nonliving things found in a particular areas
What is an ecosystem
What is carrying capacity?
What is parasitism?
Organisms that eat primary consumers
What are secondary consumers?
How trees get most of their mass
From carbon dioxide in the air?
The place where an organism lives, including biotic and abiotic factors
What is a habitat?
Competition between members of the same species
What is infraspecific competition?
A tick feeding on a deer is an example of what type of relationship
What is parasitism?
organisms that eat secondary consumers?
What are tertiary consumers?
The process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
An example of an abiotic factor is
What is sunlight, water, temperature...
Competition between different species for the same resource.
What is interspecific competition?
a bee pollinating a flower is an example of what type of relationship
What is Mutualism?
one human activity that contributes to climate change
What is burning fossil fuels, deforestation, or pollution?