TIM Strategy for Unit B - Ecosystems and Population Change

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The maximum capacity of an The amount of offspring an

individual or population to organism can have with
biotic potential reproduce with unlimited everything it may need.
resources.

The capacity of biological The number of people who

species in an environment is could fit on a boat before it
the maximum population size sinks.
carrying capacity of the species that the
environment can sustain.

The rate of growth of the The minimum nutrients an

plant and other organisms, organism needs to survive.
law of the minimum the size which it grows, and
its overall health depend on
the amount of nutrients
available.

The abundance of an Can be controlled by the

organism can be controlled climate and requirements
by certain factors. from other plants and
law of tolerance animals.

Factors such as climate and Changes to land such as

weather, exert their farming affects an organism's
density-independent factor influences on population size ecosystem and the
regardless of the population’s population.
density.

Factors include the As deer populations increase

availability of food, predation, in an area, so does the
and disease is dependent on competition for food.
density-dependent factor the population of an
ecosystem.

The branch of biology that Where organisms live and

deals with the relations of how they react with their
organisms to one another and surroundings
Ecology their physical environment.

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Something non-living (Has no Sunlight

cells)
Abiotic factor

All once living or living Animals and plants

organisms
Biotic factor

A region of transition An area of marshland

between two biological between a river and
Ecotone communities. riverbank

A large naturally occurring A forest

flora and fauna occupying a
Biome major habitat

Interactions of a species with A species job in an ecosystem

the other members of its
Ecological Niche community, its role in an
ecosystem and abiotic factors
such as soil type and climate.