Ecosystems I & II Vocabulary

All the living and nonliving things in an area

• ecosystem

• population

• community

• environment

All of one kind of organism living in the same area

• ecosystem

• population

• community

• environment

All the populations that live and interact in an area

• ecosystem

• population

• community

• environment

Everything that surrounds a living thing

• ecosystem

• population

• community

• environment

The nonliving parts of an ecosystem

• habitat

• organism

• physical characteristic

• ecosystem

The space where a plant or animal lives

• habitat

• physical characteristic

• perish

• environmental change

Living thing

• ecosystem

• perish

• thrive

• organism

To die

• community

• perish

• species

• habitat

To live and grow in a healthy way

• environmental change

• population

• thrive

• perish

When living and/or nonliving things change an       ecosystem in a significant way (drought, flood, pollution, overfishing…)

• environmental change

• perish

• community

• species