Intro to Ecology Vocab

nonliving parts of an ecosystem

• abiotic factors

• Biotic

• niche

• producer

to adapt to a new climate, environment, or situation

• Biosphere

• acclimate

• biotic factors

• Community

Consists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere.

• acclimate

• abiotic factors

• Community

• Biosphere

living parts of an ecosystem

• biotic factors

• Community

• conformer

• dormancy

All the different populations that live together in an area

• biotic factors

• Community

• Biosphere

• Ecology

An animal that allows its internal condition to vary with certain external changes

• conformer

• dormancy

• abiotic factors

• acclimate

A period when an organism's growth or activity stops

• conformer

• dormancy

• Community

• abiotic factors

Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment

• Ecology

• Ecosystem

• Community

• abiotic factors

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

• Ecology

• dormancy

• fundamental niche

• Ecosystem

The niche species could potentially occupy.

• Ecosystem

• fundamental niche

• Ecology

• Generalist