1. Ecology Vocabulary (Part A: Basics and Relationships)
Make cards for the words you got wrong….
use the examples provided or think of your own!

2. Pertaining to the nonliving factors playing a role in environment

3. Abiotic factors

4. Makes own food (Ex) plants

5. autotroph (producer)

6. Pertaining to the living factors playing a role in environment

7. biotic factors

8. an organisms that eats meat only

9. carnivore

10. a complex community characterized by distinctive plants, animals and climate

11. biome

12. maximum population of a particular organism an environment
can support

13. carrying capacity

14. A relationship in which one member benefits and the other is NOT harmed and does
NOT benefit

15. commensalism

16. a group of living things interacting with one another in a specific region

17. population

18. the struggle among organisms both of the same and different species for food, mate and other vital requirements

19. competition

20. an organism, like an animal, that consumes or feeds on other animals

21. Consumer (heterotroph)

22. breaks down dead organisms and turns them into simpler substances (ex) bacteria

23. decomposer

24. branch of biology dealing with interactions between living and nonliving factors in an environment

25. ecology

26. system formed by the interactions of a community of organisms and their environment (living and non-living things)

28. show the amount of energy in each level of an ecosystem
(bottom of pyramid is
biggest - therefore has
most energy)

30. series of organisms interrelated by their feeding habits
series of organisms interrelated by their feeding habits. (arrows point from the MOST energy to the LEAST energy)

32. Made up of two or more food chains

34. the natural environment of an organism; place natural for food and other resources of an organism

36. an organism that eats plants only

38. an organism from which a parasite receives nutrition/resources

40. any variable that slows the growth or activities of an organism

42. A relationship in which each member benefits from the relationship

44. the role of an organism in the community

46. eats both plants and animals

48. organism that lives on or in another organism causing harm

50. a relationship in which one member benefits and the other is harmed

52. a single type of an organism in a given location

54. number of organisms per unit of area

56. an organism that captures and feeds on the other organism

58. the organism that IS captured and eaten for food by a carnivorous animal

60. feeds on dead animals (ex) vulture

62. a relationship between two or more species which are living in the same area, in which at least one organism benefits. (there are different kinds, for example, commensalism, mutualism, parasitism, predation)