Chapter 13 Vocab Springfield

The study of interactions among living things and between living things and their surroundings

A group of different species that live together in one area

Includes all of the organisms as well as the climate, soil, water, rocks, and all other nonliving things in an area

A major regional or global community of organisms

Factors of living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria

Factors of nonliving things, such as moisture, temperature, wind, sunlight, and soil

The assortment, or variety, of living things in an ecosystem

A species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem

Organisms that get their energy from nonliving resources

Another word for producers