Abiotic are the non-living physical and chemical factors that can affect the ecosystem, such as amount of water, temperature, amount of sunlight, etc.
Biotic are the living organisms inside the ecosystem, and can include humans, animals, and plants.
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Red foxes are omnivores. Their diet includes small animals such as birds, squirrels, rabbits and mice, but also berries, grasses and insects such as crickets, caterpillars, grasshoppers and beetles. Red foxes are therefore primary as well as secondary consumers, and even apex predators. Their removal from an ecosystem would most likely reduce the predation pressure on small animals and insects, and may result in population explosions of these prey animals. This in turn may result in additional pressure on the ecosystem as these animals exceed the carrying capacity, and could lead to other plant and animal species within the food web being decimated. Basically, the balance of the ecosystem would be lost until a new equilibrium can be established.
Relating to development involves the specialization of CELLS by form and function, and NOT the entire organism?
differentiation, morphogenesis or growth?
I think the answer is differentiation.
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"Alfred Wegener suggested that continental drift occurred as continents cut through the ocean floor, in the same way as this icebreaker plows through sea ice. ... The supercontinent later broke apart and the continents having been moving into their current positions ever since. He called his hypothesis continental drift."
In the case of water, hydrogen bonds form between neighboring hydrogen and oxygen atoms of adjacent water molecules. ... However, because hydrogen bonds are weaker than covalent bonds, in liquid water they form, break, and reform easily. Thus, the exact number of hydrogen bonds formed per molecule varies.
