Ecosystems Vocabulary-all words

A group of living things (all biotic factors) and their non-living (all abiotic factors) in one particular environment.

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Individual

Living parts of the environment

• Biotic

• Abiotic

Non-living parts of the environment

• Biotic

• Abiotic

The study of the relationships between biotic and abiotic factors in environments,

• Ecosystem

• Ecology

• Biome

• Ecologist

Scientists who study Ecology are called __________?

• Ecosystem

• Ecology

• Biome

• Ecologist

A living thing

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

A single organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Individual

A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

• Individual

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

All of the living organisms (different populations) living in the same area

• Individual

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

A characteristic that improves an individual’s ability to survive in a particular environment

• Natural Resource

• Population

• Adaptation

• Niche