Ecology Vocabulary

all nonliving things in an ecosystem, including water, rocks, sunlight, weather, natural disasters, oxygen, space, hunting, and shelter

• ecology

• limiting factor

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

all living things in an ecosystem, including animals, bacteria, plants, fungi, and other living species

• ecology

• limiting factor

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

Which one is an abiotic factor?

• water

• tree

• worm

• wolf

Which one is a biotic factor?

• water

• sunlight

• air

• fungus

What are three types of symbiotic relationships?

• mutualism, commensalism, parasitism

• population, community, organism

• biotic, abiotic, limiting factor

• saprophyte, heterotroph, autotroph

A single living thing is called...

• individual

• population

• community

• habitat

A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time is a ...

• habitat

• individual

• community

• population

Different populations of plants and animals in a habitat form a ...

• organism

• community

• habitat

• population

A community and its abiotic factors make up a(n)...

• biome

• population

• ecosystem

• biosphere

Similar ecosystems are known as.....

• biomes

• biospheres

• populations

• biotic areas