Interactions and Relationships in an Ecosystem

Nonliving factors that affect the ecosystem; includes light, space, temperature, shelter, water, and soil composition

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

• Rocks

• Biodiversity

What are living, or produced by living things called?

• Biotic Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Organisms

• Reproduction

When two or more individuals or populations attempt to obtain a single resource.

• Competitive Interaction

• Biodiversity

• Competition

• Dependent Interaction

A system comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Environment

• Food Web

A self-contained living thing.

• Organism

• Biotic Factor

• Primary Consumer

• Producer

A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area.

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

• K.C. Zoo

The interaction between two animals in which one animal eats the other.

• Predatory Interaction

• Big Mac

• Food Web

• Species

The relationship between two organisms in a community.

• symbiosis

• predator / prey

• cooperation

• population

Another word for a plant that makes its own food using energy from sunlight…

• photosynthesis

• producer

• heterotroph

• carnivore

• herbivore

Where does the energy start for all living things & in this food chain?

• Plant

• Sun

• Deer

• Wolf