Biology Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms

A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other

• Symbiotic

• Autotrophs

• Learned Behavior

• Mutualism

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

• Symbiotic

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Carrying Capacity

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit

• Symbiotic

• Commensalism

• Carrying Capacity

• Mutualism

 Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factors

• Sustainability

• Autotrophs

Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms.

• Limiting Factors

• Carrying Capacity

• Biological Magnification

• Learned Behavior

increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web

• Biological Magnification

• Niche

• Limiting Factors

• Sustainability

The ability to keep in existence or maintain

• Biological Magnification

• Limiting Factors

• Carrying Capacity

• Sustainability

Anything that is living, has ever been living or is derived from something living

• Autotrophs

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Food Web

the non-living parts of an environment

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Food Web

• Niche

An organism that makes its own food; producer

• Niche

• Heterotrophs

• Homeostasis

• Autotrophs