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Air, water, and soil are all examples of this factor in an environment.
What are abiotic factors?
The study of the interaction of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
The source of all energy on Earth.
What is the sun?
A group of organisms belonging to the same species living in a particular area.
What is a population?
Made up of populations that interact with each other
What is a community?
Precipitation is a key process in this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
This process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
Bacteria in the soil convert this element into ammonia.
What is nitrogen?
A major reservoir of water that is a carbon sink.
What is the ocean?
Opposite processes vital to the carbon cycle.
What are photosynthesis and respiration?
A population will do this when the death rate exceeds the birth rate.
What is decrease?
A hurricane is an example of what type of limiting factor.
What is density- independent?
The point where a population stops growing and levels off
What is the carrying capacity?
Individuals moving into a population is known as this.
What is immigration?
This population growth model increases very rapidly and without restriction.
What is exponential growth?
Both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
One organism benefits and one organism is harmed
What is parasitism?
A relationship in which one organism kills and eats another
What is predator and prey?
A kudzu vine growing on a tree is an example of this.
What is competition?
Barnacles and whales
What is commensalism?
The bottom level of every energy pyramid
What are producers?
Eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The amount of energy transferred to each level of the energy pyramid
What is 10%?
The name for the levels of an energy pyramid
What are trophic levels?
A complex diagram illustrating how energy moves through an ecosystem
What is a food web?
Make your wager
The density of a population is found by dividing these two things.
What are the number of individuals and the unit of area?