Factors of Organism

Question 1

What is biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem?

Answer 1

Biotic = alive
Abiotic = dead

Question 2

Define population

Answer 2

A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same habitat or ecosystem at the same time

Question 3

Define community

Answer 3

All the organisms of various species that share a habitat or ecosystem

Question 4

Define biodiversity

Answer 4

The number of species in an ecosystem

Question 5

Define indicator species

Answer 5

A species sensitive to small changes in environmental conditions

Question 6

Define habitat

Answer 6

A place or type of environment with conditions suitable for the survival of an organism or population of organisms

Question 7

Define ecotone

Answer 7

A transition area between ecosystems

Question 8

Define biome

Answer 8

A large geographical region with a specific range of temperatures and precipitation, and the organisms that are adapted to those conditions of temperature and precipitation

Question 9

What does carrying capacity of an ecosystem mean?

Answer 9

The maximum number of individuals that can be supported by an ecosystem

Question 10

Define bioaccumulation

Answer 10

Substances (pesticides, chemicals, etc.) that the organisms absorb at a rate faster than which substance is lost

Question 11

What are adaptions for survival?

Answer 11

What helps organisms meet their basic needs

ex) Koala have claws to climb trees

Question 12

What is an ecological niche?

Answer 12

An organism’s role in an ecosystem, consisting, of its place in the food web, its habitat, its breeding area, and the time of day at which it is most active

Question 13

What is an animals biotic potential and factors?

Answer 13

Biotic potential is the maximum number of offspring that a species could produce with unlimited resources. Biotic factors is a living factor that influences an organism.

Question 14

What is limiting factors?

Answer 14

Things that prevents the population from growing like food shelter water. Factors in the environment that can prevent populations from attaining their biotic potential. Any resource that is in short supply is limiting factor on a population.

Question 15

What is environmental resistance?

Answer 15

Any factor that limits a population’s ability to realize its biotic potential when it nears or exceeds the environment’s carrying capacity

Question 16

How does limiting factors affect biotic potential?

Answer 16

Limiting factors affect biotic potential because the population growth isn’t high because of factors like food, shelter, water

Question 17

How does limiting factors differentiate between density-dependent factors and density independent factors?

Answer 17

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Question 18

What is the order of a taxonomic classification?

Answer 18

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
ex of human) Eukarya, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, primates, Hominidae, Homo, Homo sapiens

Question 19

What is intraspecific competition ?

Answer 19

The same species competing for resources

Question 20

What is interspecfic competition?

Answer 20

Two or more different species competing for resources

Question 21

How does mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism apply to interspecies relationships?

Answer 21

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Question 22

What is the principle of succession in an ecosystem and how it pertains to aspen parkland biome?

Answer 22

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Question 23

Define Mutualism relationship

Answer 23

Two organisms benefit from the relationship

Question 24

Define Commensalism relationship

Answer 24

One organism benefits from the relationship and one organisms is not affected by the relationship

Question 25

Define Parasitism relationship

Answer 25

One organism benefits from the relationship and one organism is harmed from the relationship