Ecology Vocabulary

The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

An individual belonging to a specific species is a

• Biotic

• Community

• Organism

• Reptile

Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

The organisms that make up a community and the nonliving parts of the environment that they interact with are a(n)

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

Desert, tropical rain forest, deciduous forest, and tundra are types of

• ecosystems

• biomes

• communities

• biospheres

A habitat is ___________________.

• the place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives.

• is how plants produce their own food.

• is an animal that only eats meat.

• the place where only one animal lives.

A niche ________________.

• is the function that an organism performs in the food web of that community.

• includes everything else the organism does and needs in its environment.

• is specific to each individual animal and plant.

• All of the above.

Which of the following is NOT a form of symbiosis?

• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Parasitism 
• Predation