Ecology- Biology

Cards (18)

  • Habitat
    The place an organism lives
  • Community
    All the different species in a habitat
  • Population
    All the organisms of one species in a habitat
  • Ecosystem
    All of the living organisms in an area, all non-living abiotic conditions
  • Abiotic factor
    Non living factors which effect size, distributions of a specie
  • Abiotic factors
    • Sunlight
    • Minerals
    • PH
  • Biotic factor
    Living factors which can affect size and distribution of a species
  • Biotic factors
    • Food availability
    • Pathogens
  • Species
    Group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
  • Species
    • Predators
  • Niche
    Role that an organism has in an ecosystem
  • Niche
    • Bees pollinating plants
    • Rabbits grazing grass to stop grass growing
  • Ecologists
    People who study and monitor ecosystems
  • Quadrat
    Metal frame with a known area
  • Quadrats
    • Used to find the size of a population
  • Community
    • African savannah
  • Repeating the experiment more than 10 times can increase the reliability of investigating population size and finding an average
  • Biodiversity
    Measure of the variety of different species in an ecosystem