Ecology Vocabulary

scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment

• Biotic Factor

• Specie

• Ecology

• Population

any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact

• Biotic Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Habitat

• Mutualism

group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

• Habitat

• Population

• Parasitism

• Competition

interaction in which one organism (the predator) captures and feeds on another organism (the prey)

• Herbivory

• Symbiosis

• Predation

• Parasitism

all the organisms that live in a place, together with their nonliving environment

• Mutualism

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

• Niche

symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship

• Parasitism

• Copetition

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area

• Community

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

a group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

• Individual

• Population

• Species

• Abiotic Factor

physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem

• Ecosystem

• Biotic Factor

• Symbiosis

• Abiotic Factor

relationship in which two species live close together

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Community

• Parasitism