Ecology Interactions Within the Environment

any close relationship between species, including mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism 

• energy through an ecosystem 
• symbiosis 
• energy pyramid 
• habitat 

eats producer 

• prey 
• consumer 
• herbivore 
• decomposer 

the study of the interactions that take place among organisms and their environment.

• ecology 
• biomes 
• food chain 
• limiting factors 
  limiting factors

living things within an ecosystem. 

• niche 
• consumers 
• biotic factors 
• population 

one of any living thing 

• omnivores
• limiting factor 
• abiotic 
• organism 

chain showing how energy passes from one organism to the next

• food web 
• abiotic 
• herbivore 
• food chain 

largest number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support over time

• limiting factor 
• biomes 
• carrying capacity 
• niche 

non-living parts of an ecosystem-air/ water/ soil/ sun 

• symbiosis 
• biomes 
• abiotic 
• ecology 

all the living organisms that live in an area and the nonliving features of their environment

• ecosystem 
• limiting factor 
• biomes 
• energy pyramid 

large geographic areas with similar climates and ecosystems. 

• biomes 
• energy pyramid 
• energy through an ecosystem 
• limiting factor