vocab unit 7

Question 1

abiotic

Answer 1

physical rather than biological;not derived from living organisms

Question 2

biotic

Answer 2

relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations

Question 3

biodiversity

Answer 3

a variety of organisms in an ecosystem of biome

Question 4

climax community

Answer 4

a dominate community of plants and animals that come to live in an area

Question 5

ecological succession

Answer 5

the changing sequence of communities that live in an ecosystem during a time period

Question 6

limiting factor

Answer 6

a condition of resource that keeps a population at a certain size

Question 7

micro habitat

Answer 7

a small of specialized habitat within a larger habitat

Question 8

pioneer species

Answer 8

first organisms to live in an area

Question 9

primary succession

Answer 9

a process that develops a biotic community previously uninhabited and barren habitat with little or no soil

Question 10

secondary succession

Answer 10

a process started by an event that reduces an already established ecosystem to a smaller population of species

Question 11

sustainability

Answer 11

ability to maintain ecological processes over long periods of time; ability of an ecosystem to maintain its structure and function over time

Question 12

biome

Answer 12

a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest of tundra