What are the two types of components that ecosystems have?
Abiotic and Biotic
____________ components are the physical environment and physical and chemical characteristcs.
Abiotic
Light, _______ and temperature are some of the main ABIOTIC components that have an impact on the biology of living things
water
____________ components are living things in every ecosystem.
Biotic
The collection of individuals of a same species that live in a biotope is called a ____________.
population
Give one type of feeding relationships in the ecosystem.
producers, consumers and decomposers
_____________ are organisms, such as algae or plants, that can produce their own food.
producers
___________ are organisms that eat other living things
consumers
_________ are organisms that obtain their nutrients by decomposing dead organisms (example: bacteria and fungi)
decomposers
____________ is a interspecific relationship where an organism captures and kills another prey food.
predation
___________ is a interspecific relationship where one species lives off another (the host). One organism profits while the other is harmed.
Parasitism.
As long as there are no sudden, unusual changes to the ecosystem, it maintains this ____________-.
balance
___________ is the VARIETY of species that live or have lived on Earth.
Biodiversity
True or False. The loss of a single species can alter the balance of an ecosystem.
TRUE
Our excessive use and poor management of natural resources are causing a ________ of biodiversity in many regions of the Earth.
loss
___________ of a species occurs when the last individual of that species dies.
extinction
