Ecology Vocabulary

Abiotic

• Living

• Non-living

• Community of plants and animals with a common environment

• Organism that makes its own food for energy

Biotic

• Individual animal, plant, or life form

• One organism (parasite) benefits from harming the other (host)

• Succession that occurs where life did not exist

• Living

Organism

• Individual animal, plant, or life form

• both organisms benefit from their relationship

• All living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things that interact in a specific area

• organism that makes its own food for energy

Population

• Community of plants and animals with a common environment (climate)

• One organism benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed

• A group of the same kind of organism living in a specific area

• Succession that occurs where life existed, but life is disturbed and has to rebuild

Community

• One organism (parasite) benefits from harming the other (host)

• The position an organism occupies in a food web

• Succession that occurs where life existed, but life is disturbed and has to rebuild

• All populations that live in a specific area

Ecosystem

• All the living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things that interact in a specific area

• The position an organism occupies in a food web

• Living or once living factors

• One organism benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed

Biome

• Individual animal, plant, or life form

• Community of plants and animals with a common environment (climate)

• Both organisms benefit from their relationship

• Succession that occurs where life did not exist

Biosphere

• one organism (parasite) benefits from harming the other (host)

• a group of the same kind of organism living in a specific area 

• All biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) things on earth.

• one organism benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed

Trophic Level

• all populations that live in a specific area 

• organism that makes its own food for energy

• Non-living

• The position an organism occupies in a food web

Producer

• organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms

• one organism (predator) hunts down the other (prey) for food

• organism that makes its own food for energy

• one organism (parasite) benefits from harming the other (host)