Abiotic/ Biotic Factors
What is abiotic?
Non-living
What is parasitism?
An organism feeding on another benefiting from it but harming the other
What is a predator?
An organism that eats and attacks its food/ prey.
What is a population?
The same kind of organism in a group
In a grassland, lions depend on the grass for hunting and hiding. What factor are they depending on abiotic/ biotic?
biotic factor since grass is alive
What is mutualism?
Both organisms benefit from eachother?
What happens if the predators decline in population?
Prey will increase
What is this an example of?
A single frog of a specific species living in a forest.
organism =1
A biotic example can be a big leaf living in a dense forest?
true or false
TRUE
Swamp sparrows and blue crabs like to eat hermit crabs. What is this an example of?
Competing for food
Are there more predators or more prey in an environment?
More prey
What is a community??
A group of organism of the same population gathered with other different kind of population both plants and animals... but must be all living (biotic).
A rabbit eats abiotic or biotic leaves?
BIOTIC because they are alive
What do you call when a grasshopper and a bunny are trying to eat the same leaf?
Competing for food
Who is at the top of the food web?
Hermit Crabs, Bald Eagle, or Phytoplankton
Bald Eagle
What is this an example of?
All the living and non-living components of a forest.
ECOSYSTEM
because it included biotic and abiotic.
Which one does NOT belong?
shade, rain, fruits, humidity, temperature
fruits are BIOTIC
What is commensalism?
One organism benefits and the other is not benefited nor harmed
What do the arrows mean in a food web or food chain?
Which way should the arrows be pointing?
Explain
They point at the animal it is giving its energy to or point to the animal it gets eaten by.
What is the correct order of hierarchy starting with
organism-_____- ___-_____
organism-___population__- _community__-__ecosystem___