Chapter 3 The Biosphere

The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

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The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

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Water temperature would be an example of ...

• A biotic factor
• An abiotic factor

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A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air
• birds and plants
• birds, water, dirt
• plants, water

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Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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Organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain energy from external sources are called

• autotrophs
• heterotrophs
• thylakoids
• plants

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What is an autotroph?

• an organism that can make their own food. 
• an organism that cannot make their own food
• Herbivore
• Omnivore