Vocabulary Practice - Intro to Ecology

Abiotic Factor

• are the nonliving aspects of the environment. They include factors such as sunlight, soil, temperature, and water.

• biological diversity; the sum total of variety of organisms in the biosphere

• Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities.

• are the living aspects of the environment. They consist of other organisms, including members of the same and different species.

Biodiversity

• are the nonliving aspects of the environment. They include factors such as sunlight, soil, temperature, and water.

• biological diversity; the sum total of variety of organisms in the biosphere

• Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities.

• are the living aspects of the environment. They consist of other organisms, including members of the same and different species.

Biome

• are the nonliving aspects of the environment. They include factors such as sunlight, soil, temperature, and water.

• biological diversity; the sum total of variety of organisms in the biosphere

• Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities.

• are the living aspects of the environment. They consist of other organisms, including members of the same and different species.

Biotic Factor

• are the nonliving aspects of the environment. They include factors such as sunlight, soil, temperature, and water.

• biological diversity; the sum total of variety of organisms in the biosphere

• Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities.

• are the living aspects of the environment. They consist of other organisms, including members of the same and different species.

Carnivore

• organism that obtains energy by eating animals

• characteristics that living organisms share (cells, heredity, response to stimuli, use energy, reproduce, homeostasis, grow and change)

• average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region

• symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

Characteristics of living things

• organism that obtains energy by eating animals

• characteristics that living organisms share (cells, heredity, response to stimuli, use energy, reproduce, homeostasis, grow and change)

• average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region

• symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

Climate

• organism that obtains energy by eating animals

• characteristics that living organisms share (cells, heredity, response to stimuli, use energy, reproduce, homeostasis, grow and change)

• average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region

• symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

Commensalism

• organism that obtains energy by eating animals

• characteristics that living organisms share (cells, heredity, response to stimuli, use energy, reproduce, homeostasis, grow and change)

• average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region

• symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

Competitive exclusion principle

• ecological rule that states that no two species can occupy the same exact niche in the same habitat at the same time.

• gradual change in living communities that follows a disturbance.

• the area where an organism lives, including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it.

• organism that obtains energy by eating only plants.

Ecological succession

• ecological rule that states that no two species can occupy the same exact niche in the same habitat at the same time.

• gradual change in living communities that follows a disturbance.

• the area where an organism lives, including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it.

• organism that obtains energy by eating only plants.