Ch. 20-21 Vocabulary By: Bryan Tejano

A living thing

• habitat

• species

• organism

• population

The specific environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce

• abiotic factor

• habitat

• biotic factor

• ecosystem

biotic factor

• a living part of an organism's habitat

• a nonliving part of an organism's habitat

• a living part of an organism's species

• a nonliving part of an organism's species

a nonliving part of an organism's habitat - biotic factor

• TRUE

• FALSE

the process in which some organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

• photosynthesis

a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce

• population

• environment

• species

• birth rate

population

• all the different populations that live together in an area

• all the members of one species in a particular area

• the number of individuals in an area of a specific size

• lots of people

all the different populations that live together in an area - community

• TRUE

• FALSE

the study of how living things interact with each other and with the environment - ecosystem

• TRUE

• FALSE

the community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings

• community

• population

• estimate

• ecosystem