VOCAB 1
NON LIVING
ABIOTIC
LIVING
BIOTIC
Organisms living in groups within their ecosystem
Their ecosystem will affect how they live
POPULATION
PLANT EATER
HERBIVORE
When one organism benefits but the other is unaffected
COMMENSALISM
An organism's “job” within the environment
The way the organism survives within an environment
NICHE
Make their own food
Autotrophs
PRODUCER
Consumer
Gets hunted and caught for food
PREY
When both organisms benefit
MUTUALISM
Consumer
Kills another animal for food
PREDATOR
Living thing in an ecosystem
ORGANISM
Shows how energy passes from one organism to the next
FOOD CHAIN
Shows how energy passed from one organism to the next but more complex
Interconnected food chains
Looks like a spider web
FOOD WEB
MEAT AND PLANT EATER
OMNIVORE
Return nutrients to the soil by consuming waste and dead organisms
DECOMPOSER
MEAT EATER
CARNIVORE
Organisms that eat producers or other consumers
CONSUMER
Close relationship between different species
SYMBIOSIS
When one organism benefits and the other is harmed
PARASITISM
Direction of energy through an ecosystem
TROPHIC LEVEL
Anything that can limit the size of a population
Can be both living and nonliving
LIMITING FACTOR
Where an organism lives, eats, has shelter, moisture, and temperature
HABITAT
Also known as a BIOME, an ecosystem includes all the living (biotic) & nonliving (abiotic) features of an environment. Major types of ecosystems include the rainforest, desert, tundra, savanna, the ocean, etc.
ECOSYSTEM
Large geographic area with similar climate and ecosystem
(ALSO KNOWN AS ECOSYSTEM)
BIOMES
The MAX (largest) number of individual organisms an ecosystem can carry
CARRYING CAPACITY