Habitats & Interactions Key Terms

A system formed by organisms interacting with each other and their non-living surroundings in a balanced way

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Abiotic

• Environment

Any living thing

• Abiotic

• Organism

• Interdependent

• Predation

Non-living factors of an ecosystem/environment

• Biotic

• Environment

• Abiotic

• Photosynthesis

Series of interacting food chains within an ecosystem

• Ecology

• Food web

• Adaptations

• Parasitism

Living factors of an ecosystem/environment

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Ecosystem

• Parasitism

All the factors in an organism’s surrounding that affects its survival

• Ecology

• Ecosystem

• Biosphere

• Environment

Organisms depending on each other for survival

• Competition

• Predation

• Interdependent

• Habitat

The study of the interactions between living things and their environment

• Ecologist

• Ecology

• Environment

• Ecosystem

The process by which plants make their food using carbon dioxide, water and light

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Producer

• Plant

Characteristics that help organisms to survive and reproduce

• Adaption

• Competition

• Adaptation

• Biosphere