1. Carrying Capacity

By the end of this section you should be able to:

Define biotic factors and provide several examples of biotic factors.

Essential Vocabulary

Biotic Carrying capacity Competition Limiting Factors Niche

2. Define abiotic factors and provide several examples of abiotic factors.

Essential Vocabulary

Abiotic

3. Define Carrying Capacity and be able to make predictions about how carrying capacity will change with changes to biotic and abiotic factors.

Essential Vocabulary

Habitat

4. Analyze a food web and describe the feeding relationships and competition between organisms within an ecosystem.

Essential Vocabulary

Food Web Autotroph Heterotroph Biodiversity food pyramid Food chain

5. Use the description of the relationships of an organism in a symbiotic relationship and categorize that relationship as mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism.

Essential Vocabulary

MutualismCommensalismParasitism Symbiosis

6. Explain how a disease in one species in a food web will impact the other populations in the community.

Essential Vocabulary

Human Impacts On EcosystemsInvasive species

7. Examine data changes of biotic or abiotic factors to make predictions about the changing structure of an ecosystem.

Vocabulary Review

These are 2 practice vocabulary quizzes to help you review the vocabulary for this section. Each quiz has 10 questions. You need to scroll to see all of the questions and select the "submit" button to complete the quiz and get a score

Carrying Capacity

There are 8 questions on this Content Quiz. You need to scroll to see all of the questions and select the "submit" button to complete the quiz and get a score.

This is a skills quiz to help you review and apply science practices to the content from this module. There are 4 questions. You need to scroll to see all of the questions and select the "submit" button to complete the quiz and get a score.

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