Ecology Vocabulary

Features or materials in the environment that a population perceives to be necessary and useful to its maintenance and well-being.

Natural resources that are potentially inexhaustible either because it is constantly or periodically replenished as lon as its use does not exceed its maximum sustainable yield.

The study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments they occupy.

The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

• A) Ecology

• B) Sociology

• C) Anthropology

• D) Geology

A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

• A) Species

• B) Population

• C) Community

• D) Ecosystem

The role or function of an organism or species in an ecosystem, including the way it gets its energy and nutrients.

• A) Niche

• B) Habitat

• C) Biome

• D) Trophic level

A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat.

• A) Biome

• B) Ecosystem

• C) Biosphere

• D) Community

The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

• A) Biodiversity

• B) Biomass

• C) Biome

• D) Biosphere

The non-living parts of an ecosystem such as sunlight, temperature, wind patterns, and precipitation.

• A) Abiotic factors

• B) Biotic factors

• C) Producers

• D) Consumers

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.

• A) Photosynthesis

• B) Respiration

• C) Decomposition

• D) Fermentation