Biotic/Abiotic

Question 1

Biotic

Answer 1

An animal or a plant in an ecosystem

Question 2

Abiotic

Answer 2

Soil, heat, air basically anything that doesn’t have a pulse or doesn’t eat

Question 3

Ecology

Answer 3

The study of organisms and their interactions with the environment

Question 4

Biosphere

Answer 4

Life-supporting region of the earth; all land, water and air in which organisms live

Question 5

Bacteria

Answer 5

Bacteria is a biotic factor of an environment and helps plants and helps get rid of carcases

Question 6

Decomposers

Answer 6

Decomposer get rid of decomposing carcases (such as bacteria) for new life to grow such as flowers

Question 7

Air

Answer 7

Air is a important part in an environment it
it carries elements that biotic things use or need

Question 8

Habitat

Answer 8

The place in which an organism lives

Question 9

Niche

Answer 9

How an organism survives, how it obtains food and shelter, how it finds a mate and cares for its offspring, and how it avoids danger

Question 10

Population

Answer 10

All of the organisms in an ecosystem that belong to the same species

Question 11

Predator

Answer 11

Consumers that capture and eat other consumers

Question 12

Prey

Answer 12

The organism that is captured and consumed by the predator

Question 13

Scavengers

Answer 13

A consumer that eats organisms that have already died

Question 14

Mutualism

Answer 14

A relationship between were both organisms benefit

Question 15

Symbiosis

Answer 15

A relationship of dependence or mutual benefit between organisms of the same ecosystem

Question 16

Consumer

Answer 16

An organism that cannot make its own food and feeds on other organisms

Question 17

Food web

Answer 17

Shows all the possible feeding relationships at each trophic level in a community

Question 18

Food chain

Answer 18

A diagram that shows the flow of energy and matter between animals in a community

Question 19

Primary Succession

Answer 19

Begins in an area where NO SOIL is present. The development of an ecosystem in an area that has never had a community living within it

Question 20

Ecological Succession

Answer 20

Natural, gradual changes in the types of species that live in an area; can be primary or secondary