Mrs. H's Ecosystem Vocabulary Words

One living thing.

• habitat

• Organism

• ecosystem

• abiotic

These are resources like food, water, shelter and space that can determine the size of a population that can be supported in an ecosystem.

• niche

• habitat

• limiting factors

• competition

Click all the abiotic factors in the forest

• trees

• owls

• Sunlight

• rain

• soil

What do you call THE PLACE where an organism lives?

• ecosystem

• community

• environment

• habitat

Which best describes an environment?

• all the living and non living things that surround and affect an organism

• all the organisms that live in a place

• An organism's role and function in its ecosystem

• the place where an organism lives inside an ecosystem

Is this showing one forest population or one forest community?

• population-everything in the picture is the same species

• community- the picture has several different species

If two species live in the same habitat and eat the same food they are in a battle for survival or . . .

• diverse

• competition

• ecosystem

• symbiosis

Pandas only eat bamboo so they have a very specific _________________.

• habitat

• niche

• limiting factor

• population

All the owls in an ecosystem is callled a _____________.

• community

• population

• ecosystem

Which is the definition of ecosystem?

• all the organisms living in a place together with their environment

• resources like food, water, shelter and space that determine the size of a population.

• a group of organisms of the same species

• an organism's role or function in its ecosystem