Vocabulary
What is a predator?
An animal that naturally preys on others.
What defines something as an ecosystem?
An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic (living) factors, as well as abiotic (nonliving) factors. Biotic factors include plants, animals and other organisms.
What does competition look like in an ecosystem?
Competition in an ecosystem looks like organisms struggling for limited resources such as food, water, sunlight, space, and mates, which can result in one species outcompeting another for survival and reproduction.
What is carrying capacity?
The number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container.
What is limiting factor?
A limiting factor is a condition or resource that restricts the growth, abundance, distribution, or rate of a process, whether in an ecological system or a physiological one