Ecology Vocabulary

More than one individual or population in an ecosystem that relies upon the same limited resource (a)  

• Limited Resource

• Competition

• Dependent Interaction

• Organism

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Something that is needed by organisms and is not infinite in its abundance in the environment; if it is exhausted, then the organisms that need it cannot survive (a)  

• Resources

• Limited Resources

• Competition

• Population

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A self-contained living thing (a)  

• Biotic Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Organism

• Secondary Consumer

Not living, or produced by living (a)  

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

• Population

• Organism

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The largest population an area can support (a)  

• Population

• Primary Consumer

• Carrying Capacity

• Secondary Consumer

Source or supply from which benefit is produced (a)  

• Abiotic Factor

• Resource

• Biotic Factor

• Limited Resource

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This large area of Earth that has certain physical conditions (weather/climate) and the living things that are found here is called a (a)  

• biome

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• population

This part of the EARTH that organisms are able to live is the (a)  

• Crust

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Biosphere

All the populations that live in the same place at the same time (a)  

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Community

• Species

What is an ECOSYSTEM?

• All living things in an area

• All nonliving things in an area

• All living things in an area that interact with other living things and nonliving things

• All members of a species that live in the same area

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