TIM Strategy for Unit B - Ecosystems and Population Change

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The maximum capacity of Making babies when

an individual or population to OPTIMAL
biotic potential reproduce under optimal
environmental conditions.

Maximum population size of Environment providing for

the species that the baby making
environment can sustain
carrying capacity indefinitely

The rate of growth of a The fundamentals of plants

plant, the size to which it
law of the minimum grows, and its overall health
depend on the amount of
the scarcest of its essential
nutrients that is available to
it.

For every organism there is What an organism can

an optimum in regard to survive and withstand
environmental factors. When
law of tolerance environmental factors are
not favourable the number
of individuals will decrease.

Any factor limiting the size This is like a natural disaster.

of a population whose effect The population number
density-independent factor is not dependent on the doesn’t effect the impact.
number of individuals in the
population.

Any factor limiting the size of This is like disease, where the
a population whose effect is population size is a great
dependent on the number of factor regarding the effect
density-dependent factor individuals in the population. and how many will be
affected.

The relations of organisms How all living things (bio)

to one another and to their interact with each other and
physical surroundings. their surroundings
Ecology

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Non-Living components in an -Soil

ecosystem -Water
Abiotic factor -Climate

Living components in an -Predation

ecosystem -Competition
Biotic factor -Disease

a transitional area of Remember the graph where

vegetation between two this area has the most
Ecotone different plant communities biodiversity

a large naturally occurring Relationship between plants

community of flora and and animals
Biome fauna occupying a major
habitat

EX) forest or tundra area.

An organism's role in the vast ROLE and JOB

ecosystem.
Ecological Niche -producer...provide food for
consumers