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Ecology Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is an ecosystem? | a community of organisms and their abiotic environment |
| how does an ecosystem respond to change? | it restores to equilibrium |
| what are two key factors of climate that determine biomes? | temperature and percipitation |
| what are the abiotic factors that charactorize an ecosystem? | temperature and water |
| what happens when carnivores are removed from an ecosystem? | a decrease in stability amoung populations |
| droughts, floods, and heeat waves effect an ecosystem, what type of factors are they? | abiotic factors |
| mature forests will most likely be stable how long? | long periode of time |
| what is the flow of energy in an ecosystem? | sun, producers, consumers, decomposers |
| 90% of what is not recycled in an ecosystem? | energy (heat) |
| what is a producer? | plants |
| what is a consumer? | rabbits, bugs |
| whats a decomposer? | fungis, mushrooms |
| what is an omnivore? | eats plants and animals |
| what effects population? | food, water, predators and human activities |