Ecosystem Vocab - Part 2

Small living things that eat everything from waste and garbage to dead animals

• Endangered species

• Population

• Niche

• Decomposer

Organisms that make up the living parts of the ecosystem

• Niche

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

• Endangered species

Any species vulnerable to endangerment in the future

• Ecosystem

• Threatened Species

• Endangered Species

• Community

More than one individual of the same species

• Threatened Species

• Ecology

• Population

• Consumer

Any species at risk of extinction because of a sudden fast decrease in its population or a loss of its important habitat

• Biotic factors

• Endangered Species

• Threatened Species

• Niche

Area where plants, animals, and other organisms work together to form life.

• Abiotic factors

• Consumer

• Ecosystem

• Population

Nonliving things found in an ecosystem

• Community

• Biotic factors

• Abiotic factors

• Niche

Two or more populations of different species that live together

• Abiotic factors

• Niche

• Community

• Producer

The relationship between living things and their environment

• Endangered Species

• Ecology

• Consumer

• Biotic Factors

An organism that gains energy by feeding on another organism

• Ecosystem

• Consumer

• Producer

• Community