3.1 - Individuals, Populations, and Communities in Ecosystems

Question 1

What is Biotic?

Answer 1

Living components or elements of the environment.

Question 2

What is Abiotic?

Answer 2

Non-living components or elements of the environment.

Question 3

What is Species?

Answer 3

Organisms that have the ability to breed with one another and produce fertile offspring.

Question 4

What is the definition of biosphere?

Answer 4

All the ecosystems in the world and their interactions.

Question 5

What is the definition of population?

Answer 5

Group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area at the same time.

Question 6

What is the definition of Community?

Answer 6

All of the organisms in all the interacting populations in a given area.

Question 7

What is the definition of Meiosis?

Answer 7

A special type of cell division which happens only in reproductive cells (sperm cells and egg cells)

Question 8

What is the definition of Mitosis?

Answer 8

Body cells (not reproductive cells) divide to form two new cells which are identical to the parent cells.