Mrs. L's Life Science Chapter 13 Ecology test review

climax vegetation is

The smallest level of a biome

biotic

Situation in which a specie's population size is greater than the specie's carrying capacity

A hot dry biome

Permanently frozen ground that is impenetrable to large roots, preventing tree growth

Optimum range is an environment that is bests suited for an organisms survival.

Temperature is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem

A plant that produces its own food

A positive type of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit

Together, the environment and all its organisms form an

The hydraulic cycle involves the recycling of nutrients

Niche refers to an organism's range of tolerance

Layer of earth where life exists

The responsibility God gave man to take care of the earth as man uses it

The idea that nature is God

Shows one type of organism at each level

Ecological succession is the process in which a new ecosystem develops after an ecosystem is damaged or destroyed

The study of how living things interact with each other and their physical environment

The struggle against other organisms for needed resources