Ecology Vocabulary

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

• population
• Biosphere
• community

All the different populations that live together in an area

• community
• Biome
• biome

A community of organisms and their abiotic environment

• Ecosystem
• Ecosystem
• population

A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms

• Biome
• Community
• ecosystem

part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere

• Biosphere
• Population
• biosphere

Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate

• exponential growth
• logistic growth
• carrying capacity

Growth of a population which may be rapid at first, but then levels off at carrying capacity due to limited resources (S-curve)

• Logisitic growth
• Exponential Growth
• carrying capacity

The number of individuals in an area of a specific size

• population density
• density independent
• exponential growth

The largest population that an area can support

• carrying capacity
• density dependent
• logistic growth

limiting factor that depends on population size

• density dependent factors
• carrying capacity
• density independent