Levels of Organisms in Ecosystems
This includes organisms that are of the same kind and can successfully reproduce
What are organisms?
Non-living parts of an organism's habitat
An environment factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size.
What are limiting factors
the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources can be described as ___
what is competition
when two or more species in a community are competing for resources
what is interspecific competition
A group of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
What is population?
Examples of this group of factors are soil, sunlight, and water
What are abiotic factors?
this can be described as the largest population that an area can support
what is carrying capacity?
water, food, and shelter are all limited in a _____
what is an ecosystem
the area that a population actually uses
what is realized niche?
The smallest level of organization
What is an organism?
What are biotic factors?
what requires the same basic resources to survive
what are all organisms
predation is an interaction in which one organism kills another for ____ and ____
what are food and nutrients
all resources that a population is theoretically capable of using
what fundamental niche
The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment
What is ecology?
what one of these are not abiotic factors?
a) wind
b) nutrients
c) water
d)decaying animals
What is d) decaying animals?
weather, space, food, and water are all ___
what are limiting factors
what is prey
what is fundamental niche and realized niche
A community of organisms and their non-living environment
What is Ecosystem?
The parts of habitat that are living or once living and interact with organisms
What are biotic factors?
the growth of populations and individuals depend on ____