Ecosystems Vocab

includes all of the living things interacting with non-living things in an area

• ecosystem

• migration

• population

• mutualism

nonliving things in an environment like temperature, light and water

• Food Web

• Abiotic factors

• Migration

• Symbiosis

living things in an environment such as animals and plants

• Biotic factors

• Parasitism

• Consumer

• Producer

Any living thing from plants to bacteria to animals

• Organism

• Biotic factors

• Extinction

• Symbiosis

a group of organisms that can breed/mate and produce offspring

• Competition

• Species

• Symbiosis

• Population

is a group of organisms that are the same species that live and reproduce in a specific area

• Organism

• Food Chain

• Parasitism

• Population

a part of the Earth’s surface with a specific climate where only certain types of plants and animals live, like a tundra

• Abiotic factors

• Biome

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

a feeding pattern of one organism eating the organism below it on the chain

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Species

• Food Chain

made of food chains and shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Food Web

• Biotic factors

the last organism in a food chain and needs to eat other organisms for energy

• Consumer

• Mutualism

• Decomposer

• Ecosystem