Ecosystems Vocab Practice Quiz

Living things within an ecosystem

• Biotic factors

• Abiotic factors

• Limiting factors

• Population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Nonliving things within an ecosystem

• Biotic factors

• Abiotic factors

• Limiting factors

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All biotic and abiotic factors in one area

• Community

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Estuary

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All living things in one area

• Ecosystem

• Limiting factors

• Community

• Population

The number of individuals within the same species living together in one area

• Community

• Biotic factors

• Ecosystem

• Population

A close relationship between two or more different species where both benefit

• Parasitic relationship

• Symbiotic relationship

• Community

• Population

Environmental conditions that limit the growth, abundance, and distribution of an organism or population of organisms in an ecosystem

• Biotic factors

• Limiting factors

• Symbiotic relationship

• Abiotic factors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

An ecosystem on land

• Estuary

• Aquatic

• Terrestrial

• Community

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

An ecosystem in water

• Estuary

• Aquatic

• Terrestrial

• Community

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that harbors another organism in a parasitic relationship

• Host

• Symbiotic relationship

• Parasite

• Estuary