Ecosystem (Biology) Questions and Answers.

Ecosystem (Biology) Questions and
Answers.
Ecosystem - Answer All the organisms that live in an area together with the no living factors
of the environment.



Biotic factors - Answer Living parts of an ecosystem.

Example: plants, animals



Abiotic factors - Answer Nonliving parts of the ecosystem.

Examples: water, sunlight, rocks



Succession - Answer The natural processes by which one community if organisms slowly
replaces another in a certain area. (Primary and secondary)



Primary succession - Answer The series of changes that occur in an area where no ecosystem
previously existed.



Secondary succession - Answer The series of changes that occur after a disturbance in an
existing ecosystem



Producers - Answer Organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun
(photosynthesis) or by other means.

Example: plants, algae



Consumers - Answer An organism that gets food by eating other organisms. (Herbivores,
carnivores, and omnivores)



Herbivores - Answer Plant eaters



Carnivores - Answer Meat eaters



Omnivores - Answer Eats both producers an consumers



Scavengers - Answer Eat dead things