Ecology vocabulary

a community of organisms and the abiotic factors that affect them

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• community

• biotic factors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the living factors in the environment

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment

• Habitat

• Population

• Ecology

• biosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the nonliving factors in the environment

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the organism that the parasite lives on

• Competition

• Host

• Protist

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

an organism that eats only animals

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

an organism that eats some plants and some animals

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area

• Ecosystem

• population

• community

• Biosphere

the part of the Earth where life exists

• Biosphere

• Ecosystem

• niche

an environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow and reproduce.

• limiting factors

• habitat

• niche