Ecosystem Vocabulary Practice

Nonliving things that affect the ecosystem

• Rocks

• Biotic Factors

• Abiotic factors

• Chemicals

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Living things that affect the ecosystem

• Animals

• Organisms

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

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When more than one organism relies on the same resource

• Competition

• Coexisting

• Sharing

• Coincidence

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When an organism must have a certain resource to stay alive

• Necessity

• Dependent interaction

• Independent interaction

• Essential

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A system that includes all of the living and nonliving things in an area and how they all interact.

• Habitat

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• The outdoors

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Something that is needed by an organism or organisms, and it is not infinite, meaning that it can run out.

• Limited Resource

• Unlimited Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Renewable resource

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An organism is

• A plant or animal

• A being that has organs inside

• A self-contained living thing

• Anything found in an ecosystem

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A group of organisms that is all the same species

• Population

• Herd

• Community

• Gathering

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Organisms that get their energy by eating producers

• Primary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Omnivores

• Carnivores

A source or supply of something that benefits one or more organisms

• Resource

• Limited Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Food

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