What is an Ecosystem?

What is an ecosystem?

• the environment and the nonliving things in it

• plants that grow in the soil

• all living thins in the environment

• a niche and the organism

Check all the factors that would be considered abiotic factors.

• bacteria

• water

• soil

• fungi

• air

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Animals, plants, bacteria, and fungi are all considered _____ factors.

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Population would be best defined as...

• a community of organisms and their environment

• all the different populations that live together in an area

• an organism and the role they play in their ecosystem

• a group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

Select all the answers that could be considered limiting factors.

• A wildfire burns down much of a forest.

• A drought dries up most of an areas crops.

• Hunters hunting animals.

• Tornados tearing up an area.

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Diversity could best be described as

• all of the different animals and organisms in an environment

• the organisms that make up an ecosystem

• the different jobs an organism is given

• living and nonliving factors in an ecosystem

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Why when diversity is high are there more resource available?

• Organisms don't eat the same thing as other organisms.

• The ecosystem is healthier.

• Organisms aren't fighting over the same resources.

• The ecosystem makes more resources.

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