Vocab
A living thing that affects the ecosystem
What is a Biotic Factor
A nonliving thing that affects the ecosystem
What is an Abiotic Factor
What will happen to the population of Squirrels if nut producing trees are cut down or burnt in a forrest fire?
What is decrease/go down
What can change in a habitat that can decrease the competition between similar animals?
What is increase in a food source, rainfall, biodiversity, increase in area
When more than one individual or population in an ecosystem relies on the same limited resources
What is Competition
When an organism depends on a factor for survival
What is Dependent Interaction
If the food source of a species of organism becomes abundant what will happen to the competition between that species?
If I want to observe two organisms compete, what should I make sure these organisms have in common?
What is the organisms have the same needs or use the same resources (food source, water, territory)
A system comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them
What is Ecosystem
Something that is needed by organisms and is not infinite in its abundance in the environment; if it is exhausted, then the organisms that need it cannot survive
What is a Limited Resource
An increase in habitat area will (increase or decrease) the competition within the same species of organism?
Decrease
Which type of competition is the following an example of: A lion fighting another lion for food.
What is Intraspecific
A self-contained living thing
A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area
What is Population
If the supply of the resource needed by two organism was doubled, what would happen to the population of those organisms?
What is increase or go up.
Which type of competition is the following an example of: A dolphin and tuna eating the same lantern fish in the ocean.
What is Interspecific
An organism that gets its energy by feeding on producers in the food chain
What is a Primary Consumer
An animal that eats primary consumers (i.e., other animals that eat plants)
What is a Secondary Consumer
What will happen to the wolf population if the area of Yellowstone is going through a drought? Why?
The wolf population will go down because the vegetation population will be down which feeds the wolves food source.
What are the four main things living organisms compete for?
What is Food, Water, Space/Territory, Mate