Vocabulary A7 Intro Ecology

The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment

• Biology

• Ecology

• Sociology

• Geology

All the organisms of the same species living in the same area or community

• Community

• Population

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

All living things in a given area, living and non-living.

• Ecosystem

• Biotic

• Community

• Species

A population of different species that exist in an ecosystem

• Habitat

• Community

• Population

• Ecosystem

The non-living parts of the environment such as rocks, air, temperature, sunlight, and water

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Habitat

• Community

The living or once living organisms in an ecosystem

• Biology

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Ecology

An organism that can produce its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.

• consumer

• heterotroph

• autotroph

• herbivore

J curve - as population gets larger, it also grows faster. This occurs because there are more individuals reproducing as the population grows and is known as

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• stable growth

• birth rate

population grows quickly, then levels off

• Exponential Growth

• Logistical Growth

• Immigration

• Emigration

The maximum number of individual organisms that an ecosystem can comfortably support is

• exponential growth

• carrying capacity

• population

• tolerance