13.2 Flashcards

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Examples of biotic factors

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Plants, fungi, animals, bacteria

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What are abiotic factors?

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Are nonliving things

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Examples of abiotic factors

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Moisture, temperature, wind, sunlight, soil

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What is biodiversity?

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Is the assortment, or variety, of living things in an ecosystem

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What are keystone species?

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Is a species that has an unusually large effects on its ecosystem

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Producers are also called autotrophs because they makeโ€ฆ

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Their own food

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Producers get energy from..

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Non-living resources

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What are consumers?

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Are organisms that get their energy by eating other living or once-living resources

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Consumers are also called heterotrophs because they..

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Feed off of different things

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Photosynthesis in most producers uses..

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Sunlight as an energy source

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Chemosynthesis in prokaryote producersโ€ฆ

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Uses chemicals as an energy source

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What are biotic factors?

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Are living things

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