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Question 1

The dependent variable is the what?

Answer 1

Responding variable

Question 2

Abiotic factors

Answer 2

Nonliving parts of the environment

Question 3

Biotic factors

Answer 3

all of the living factors that directly or indirectly affect the ecosystem such as producers and consumers

Question 4

What must there be for a stable ecosystem

Answer 4

Constant supply of energy, living organisms that can incorporate the energy into organic compounds, recycling of materials between organisms and the environment

Question 5

Producers

Answer 5

Any plant that manufactures food that photosynthesis

Question 6

Niche

Answer 6

An organisms role in an ecosystem usually eating role

Question 7

Consumers

Answer 7

Eat producers, all animals are consumers

Question 8

Decomposers

Answer 8

Break down dead organisms and make their materials available to other living things

Question 9

What is an organisms habitat determined by

Answer 9

Abiotic and biotic factors

Question 10

Mutualism

Answer 10

Both organisms benefit from the relationship

Question 11

Parasitism

Answer 11

One organism benefits and the other is harmed

Question 12

Commensalism

Answer 12

One organism benefits and there is no effect on the other

Question 13

Biosphere

Answer 13

The regions of the surface occupied by living organisms

Question 14

Biome

Answer 14

A biome is a specific environment that’s home to living things suited for that place and climate. A desert biome is great for a lizard, but a koala needs the leafy greens of a forest biome.

Question 15

Logistic growth

Answer 15

When the growth rate decreases or planes out when the population reaches carrying capacity

Question 16

Producers

Answer 16

Animals that make their own food such as plants

Question 17

Consumer

Answer 17

Organisms which receive energy by consuming other organisms

Question 18

Symbiosis

Answer 18

Interaction between two different species like mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism