Relationships in Ecosystems-Vocab terms

Nonliving, physical, and chemical, parts of a system.

• resource availability

• abiotic

• biotic

• organism

Living or once living parts of an ecosystem.

• abiotic

• prey

• biotic

• species

The amount of resources that are

needed for an organism to thrive.

Reduced quantities drive

competition.

• competition

• mutually beneficial

• population

• resource availability

When more than one individual or

population in an ecosystem relies on

the same limited resources.

• resource availability

• mutually benefical

• population

• competition

A group of organisms of the same

species living and reproducing in a

particular habitat or

geographic region.

• abiotic

• resource availability

• population

• ecosystem

The interacting system of a biological

community and its non-living environmental surroundings.

• ecosystem

• population

• predatory

• biotic

A type of symbiosis where two or more

species benefit from each other.

• resource availability

• abiotic

• mutally beneficial

• organism

An organism that kills and

consumes another.

• prey

• ecosystem

• predator

• species

An individual plant,

animal or

single-celled life

form.

• ecosystem

• predatory

• species

• organism

A group of organisms with similar

characteristics that are able to

interbreed or exchange genetic

material.

• organism

• species

• competition

• prey