WHAT TO KNOW

Question 1

Autotroph

Answer 1

organisms that can create their own food using inorganic materials like water and carbon dioxide and energy from sunlight or chemicals

Question 2

Heterotroph

Answer 2

organisms that can’t produce their own food and must consume other organisms to survive

Question 3

Decomposer

Answer 3

organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms and waste, recycling nutrients back into the environment

Question 4

Density-INdependent

Answer 4

•Natural disasters
-hurricanes
-earthquakes
•Climate/weather
•Pollution

Question 5

Density-Dependent

Answer 5

Competition, predation, disease, and resource availability

Question 6

Make food webs of a forest, grassland, or etc. Whatever the thingy says

Answer 6

Good luck
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Question 7

Density-dependent to help remember

Answer 7

Usually involves living things

BIOTIC FACTORS
-food
-predation
-diseases

Question 8

Density-independent to help remembering

Answer 8

Usually involves nonliving things

ABIOTIC FACTORS
-natural disasters
-climate
-weather