Vocab 1

Question 1

Limiting factor

Answer 1

Anything that slows or limits population growth

Question 2

Climate

Answer 2

Average weather conditions in a given area over a long periods of time

Question 3

Population density

Answer 3

Number of individuals in a relation to the space a population occupies

Question 4

Biotic

Answer 4

Living

Question 5

Abiotic

Answer 5

Non living

Question 6

Carbon cycle

Answer 6

Matter moves from the environment to organisms and back to the environment in different chemical forms

Question 7

Decomposers

Answer 7

Organisms that specialize in using matter that other organisms do not consume

Question 8

Producers

Answer 8

Organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis

Question 9

Biomass

Answer 9

The mass of all living organisms in a environment

Question 10

Consumable biomass

Answer 10

Carnivore eat consumable biomass

Question 11

Tropic levels

Answer 11

The levels of the energy pyramid

Question 12

Community

Answer 12

All the organisms that inhabit a particular area

Question 13

Ecology

Answer 13

Study of living and non living components in the environment

Question 14

Ecosystem

Answer 14

A biological community in its biotic environment

Question 15

Consumers

Answer 15

Organisms that Feed on other organisms