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Parts of an Ecosystem
Energy Flow
Limiting Factors
Human Impact
100
The term to refer to the non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
100
The name of organisms like plants that form the base of food chains.
What are producers?
100
Any organism that exists by hunting other organisms.
What are predators?
100
Precipitation that has been made more acidic than normal by combining certain chemicals in the air with water vapour.
What is acid precipitation (rain)?
200
The term that refers to the living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
200
The process by which plants capture the sun's energy and turn it into glucose (food).
What is photosynthesis?
200
The maximum population size of a species that a given ecosystem can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
200
A non-native species that has a negative impact on the natural environment?
What is an invasive species?
300
The term for a land based ecosystem.
What is terrestrial?
300
The process by which consumers get energy.
What is cellular respiration?
300
Brainworms cause a degenerative condition in moose. This often leads to their death. This is an example of which biotic limiting factor.
What is parasitism?
300
The process of breaking large ecosystems into smaller ecosystems due to flooding, pollution or wind damage.
What is fragmentation?
400
The 3 categories all living things in an ecosystem can be placed in.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
400
A linear network of organisms.
What are food chains?
400
___________________ is a key limiting factor in aquatic ecosystems.
What is oxygen?
400
Commercial fishing has an impact on which type of ecosystem.
What is aquatic or wetland ecosystems?
500
Name 3 abiotic parts of the Arctic ecosystem.
What are light, weather, and soil?
500
A graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
What is a food web?
500
An abiotic factor that plants compete with each other for.
What is light or water?
500
Taking responsibility for managing and protecting the environment.
What is stewardship?