10 ecological terms
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- What are the biotic factors in the environment? Give examples.
- All the living organisms in the environment (like people and dogs) and their activities such as disease, parasitism, predation, etc.
- What are abiotic factors in the environment? Give examples
- All the non-living factors in the environment e.g. soil, weather, amount of water, temperature of the water, etc.
- What determines whether or not organisms are members of the same species?
- When they mate, members of the same species will produce fertile offspring; nonmembers will produce sterile offspring.
- What does the term organism mean? Give examples.
- Any living thing. Examples: Name anything alive. A dog, a tree, a worm, a person, a bacterium, etc..
- What is the biosphere?
- All the regions on that contain living things.
- What is a habitat? Give examples.
- Where an organism lives (It's home.) e..g. a log, a tree, a burrow, a house, etc.
- What is the niche of an organism?
- The niche is the habitat + the organism's life style or profile (when, where, and what does it eat, when, where, and how long does it sleep, etc.)
- What is a food chain?
- A chart of who eats whom and a chart that shows the flow of energy.
- What is a food web?
- A number of interconnecting food chains.
- What is an autotroph? Give examples.
- Organisms that can make their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis e.g. plants, algae, phytoplankton, cyanobacteria, etc.