RLP review

A community of organisms interacting with one another surrounded by a physical environment

• ecosystem

• resource

• communalism

• mutualism

All of the individuals of one species living in the same area

• communalism

• mutualism

• ecosystem

• population

a nonliving thing influencing or affecting an ecosystem (weather, water, wind, sunlight, etc.)

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• producer

• consumer

A living thing influencing or affecting an ecosystem (predator, prey, bacteria, plants, etc.)

• abiotic factor

• biotic factor

• niche

• resource

A needed item for survival inan ecosystem

• population

• resource

• producer

• consumer

An organisms job or role in an environment; ensures its survival and reproduction

• niche

• ecosystem

• food web

• habitat

the place in whihc an organism lives and interacts

• niche

• ecosystem

• habitat

• food web

Organism that makes its own food (autotroph) ; often uses original sunlight energy

• producer

• consumer

• predator

• prey

Organism that must get food energy from other sources (heterotroph)

• producer

• consumer

• predator

• prey

Organism that breks down once living material (bacteria, fungi)

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• prey