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Sorting Out Life
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | nonliving |
| biome | collection of ecosystems that have similar environments and organisms |
| biotic | consisting of living organisms and products of organisms |
| community | all the interacting populations in a specified area |
| controlled experiment | an experimental in which the observer is able to standardize all but one variable to measure results |
| ecosystems | a system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified area |
| ecosystems service | a benefit that humans obtain from the environment |
| individual | a single organism |
| observation study | an experiment in which the observer collects data over time without interacting with the area of study |
| population study | an experiment in which the observer collects data over time one population in an ecosystem |