Ecology Vocab Review

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

• Biosphere
• Detritivore
• food chain
• Niche

A community of organisms and their abiotic environment

• Ecosystem
• Mutualism
• Population
• Commensalism

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A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms

• Biome
• Community
• competition
• trophic level

All the different populations that live together in an area; a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

• Community
• Biotic
• Symbiosis
• Parasitism

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

• Population
• food chain
• Community
• Symbiosis

A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.

• Species
• Ecosystem
• Abiotic
• population density

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Non-living things

• Abiotic
• predator
• population density
• Producer/Autotroph

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living things

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Producer/Autotroph
• energy pyramid

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An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.

• Niche

• Consumer/Heterotroph

• Producer

• Abiotic

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

• carrying capacity

• Decomposer

• logistic growth

• food chain

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