Ecology Vocabulary 95% or Better

A specific area where an organism lives or a specific role an organism plays in its area.

• ecosystem

• niche

• organism

• community

A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.

• ecosystem

• community

• population

• habitat

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A living thing; anything that can carry out life processes independently. 

• abiotic

• organism

• population

• human

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The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment.

• ecology

• geology

• ecosystem

• biology

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A population of species that live in the same habitat & interact with each other.

• population

• community

• biosphere

• ecosystem

Nonliving parts of the environment (water, rocks, light, temperature)

• dead

• living

• biotic

• abiotic

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Living parts of the environment (plants and animals)

• dead

• human

• biotic

• abiotic

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A group of organisms of the same species that live in a given area.

• communtiy

• population

• organisms

• ecosystem

Area where organisms live or occupy

• niche

• biosphere

• house

• habitat

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The part of Earth where life exists

• hemisphere

• ectosphere

• biosphere

• stratosphere