1. Vocabulary Chapter 1: Lesson 1
Organism
Habitat
Biotic factor
Abiotic factor
Species
Population
Community
Ecosystem
Ecology

2. Organism
Living things
Examples: eagle, bacteria, flowers

3. Habitat
An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce
Example: forest habitat, ocean habitat, prairies,

4. Biotic Factor Living or once living
Examples: Plants, worms, bacteria, animal scat, decomposing plant matter, owl pellets

5. Not-living factors in a habitat
Abiotic Factor
Not-living factors in a habitat
Examples: Sunlight, soil, temperature, oxygen, and water

6. Species
A group of organisms that mate with each other and produce offspring
Examples: white-tailed deer

7. All the members of one species living in the same area.
Population
All the members of one species living in the same area.
Example: white-tailed deer living in Frosty Hollow.

8. Community All the different populations living together in an area
Example: white-tailed deer, bears, fish, and the rabbits living in Frosty Hollow.

9. Ecosystem
Living and nonliving parts of the environment living in the same area interacting.
Examples: forests, prairies, ocean, deserts, ponds, puddle, crack in the sidewalk

10. Ecology
Study of how organisms interact with each other and their non-living environment.