Limiting Factors
A living or nonliving part of an ecosystem whose availability limits the size of a population.
What is a limiting factor?
A goose is a single one of these.
What is an organism?
The living parts of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
living in the same area.
belonging to the same species.
What are two characteristics of a group of animals or plants that make it a population?
Ecosystems made up of tide pools, and are found in water.
What are aquatic ecosystems?
A period of very little rain has led to a decrease in a meadow's grass population
What is water?
A group of individuals of the same species living together in the same area at the same time. For example, a flock of geese.
What is a population?
The nonliving of an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
Many colorful living things make up this
What is a tide pool ecosystem?
They exist in saltwater.
What is Marine Ecosystem?
A chipmunk population increases during a season in which oak trees produce more acorns than usual.
What is food?
When geese interact with the deer, plants, and other living organisms within this.
What is a community?
Soil, Air, Water
What are abiotic factors of ecology?
it gets less than 5 inches of rain each year.
What is a desert ecosystem
Ecosystems are shaped by the size, depth, and speed of the water.
What are freshwater ecosystems?
So many plants grow in the rain forest that the soil there has very few nutrients left in it.
What is soil quality?
When organisms live together in two types of groups: populations and communities.
What is an ecosystem?
Animals and Plants
What are biotic factors of an ecosystem?
This has soil that is rich in nutrients. It also receives regular rainfall.
What is the forest ecosystem?
Ecosystem that receives the least sunlight.
What is the deep ocean?
A disease has killed many of the trees in a forest, so there are few places for birds to build their nests.
What are nesting sites?
It provides energy directly to organisms that use photosynthesis.
It affects how much food is available for organisms that eat plants.
What is sunlight?
Factors that shape terrestrial ecosystems include temperature, rainfall, and the richness of the soil.
What are abiotic factors?
Ecosystems, such as deserts and forests, are found on land.
What are terrestrial ecosystems?
An estuary is a body of water that is partly enclosed by land.
What is an aquatic ecosystem?